December 15, 2014 - While Peter recovers, we hang out with various friends and family from around the world. Here we have a visit from the a...

December 14, 2014 - Daily visits to the physical therapist is pretty lightweight compared to the usual routine for recovery from surgery in...

December 13, 2014 - We visit the hip surgeon today, who did the hip joint replacement on Peter about 10 days ago. Dr. Rasmussen loves to exp...

December 11, 2014 - Got to Frankfurt about a half hour late, but I wasn’t too worried with 90 minutes left to catch my connecting flight to...

December 10, 2014 - Got out of San Francisco on Wednesday December 10, just in time to miss the huge storm that was moving in, only to find...

July 25, 2014 - This 'product from the Czech Republic' will knock you off your stool in no time, unless diluted with lots of tonic. A ni...

July 24, 2014 - Occasionally purple is the perfect color to blend into your surroundings (including this blog!), which we discovered in...

July 22, 2014 - Ahhh, the trains! A German Rail pass is the way to go for visitors from the US - and a big discount if 2 travel together...

July 22, 2014 - Birthday breakfast in the middle of the old town of Limburg. Looks like a nice peaceful way to start the day, that is un...

July 19, 2014 - The Zugspitze is Germany’s Mount Whitney, but with multiple cable car access and a restaurant at the top, teaming with p...

July 17, 2014 - After a morning of riding through the German countryside, we spent the afternoon visiting crazy King Ludwig's Linderhof...

July 16, 2014 - We take a break from the bike riding to visit Munich for the day, a little over an hour away from Garmisch-Partenkirchen...

July 15, 2014 - The French contemplate lunch. The Californians do yoga.

July 14, 2014 - On our first day of cycling around Garmisch-Partenkirchen, we rode 95 miles (80 planned miles + 15 bonus miles for a mis...

July 13, 2014 - It's actually Hotel Königshof in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, our home base for then next week of bike riding with the French...

July 12, 2014 - Guido take note - this optometrist in Garmisch knows how to put his old Campy bike parts to good use. Hang around t...

July 11, 2014 - The weather was dreary in Munich, but it was sunny inside our little Airbnb apartment... and under the matching umbrella...

July 10, 2014 - Cafe at the International Terminal at SFO. Nice place to hang out before a flight (just before the fog obliterated the b...