It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best since you have to sweat up hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate rememberance of a country you have driven throgh as you gain by riding a bicycle


Ernest Hemingway




Monday, 6 June 2011

R&R

So 3 days off the bike in SF. Great City, prob should have been to a couple of galleries ,seen a show maybe. Much better sitting around in coffee bars watching Life drift by, hanging out at the Rapha cycle club and catching up on news ( great coverage of Sarah (the gift that keeps on giving) Palins latest gaffe where she reinvents U.S history, priceless). Motel near union st, very encouraging to see Americans spending all day in bars along union st getting hammered, by 7 pm looked like Brighton on a Sat night, made me feel quite at home( later discovered that this weekend is a festival which took the shine off a bit , had hoped they did this every weekend) Met an old friend of Julia's and his Gf on sat night, few beers and meal at a German place (surprisingly good tbh, watched the Tri event on sun, and movies last night ( hangover 2, ditto) . Haircut first thing this am , now having coffee waiting for rain to ease ( fcast looking good tho) before heading off, hopefully Just beyond Santa Cruz today.


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