travel

To all the baristas of the world, I love you. I love every one of you. Without you the world would be a boring, dry, uninspiring, and decaffeinated place, devoid of style and culture and smiles and possibilities. I didn't realize how much I missed Tucson, and Epic Café in particular.

More soon when I catch up from 5 days in the car.

A photo essay.

I think my life is finally slow enough, for the first time in about 6 weeks, that I might be able to do a real blog entry. It's really too bad; so many notable things have happened since the start of August that would have merited entire entries unto themselves. I'm going to try to boil it all down to one post to get caught up. My life since August 1: - Lost the USA Crits leader's jersey in Charlotte. Lots of bad luck and bad choices in the last lap. - Got 6th at Haynes Park the next day, with a nice field sprint. Wish I could have done the same the day before. - Started a full week off the bike, sacrificing good form at Crit Nats for good form in September at San Francisco, DC, 'Cross Vegas, USA Crit Finals, and the start of the 'cross season. - Got more work done on the dinosaur sleeve in Athens while I was on my week off. - Got home and started the long, slow process of moving in with Janice in Portland. - Won the Salem Witches Cup:

How come whenever I get a good result lately, you have to go digging for the results? It's like there's a plot against me.

Finally found results for the second day at Louisville.

Monday we flew to Seattle, and then had a nice day Tuesday riding around the city a bit and checking things out, as well as doing a cool opening up workout around Mercer Island with our host Chris Daifuku from the Hagen-Berman team.

Tonight I drive to Providence, RI, to stay with a friend.

Friday AM I take a cab to the airport with my bike and fly from Providence to Louisville, KY.

Saturday and Sunday I race 2 big crits in Louisville.

Monday I fly from Louisville to Seattle, WA.

Wednesday I drive 3 hours north to Vancouver, BC, for two big crits.

Friday I drive 10 hours from Vancouver to Boise, ID, for another big crit.

Saturday I race in Boise.

Sunday I drive 7 hours back to Seattle.

Monday I fly back to Providence, and then drive home to Boston.