The end of Stage 17 of the 2006 TdF is over the top of Le Joux-Plane, and into Morzine. This excites me a great deal since it's the only city that I've actually been to in France. I would absolutely kill to be there. I'm sure I'll be in the middle of nowhere, in the car, on my way to some event though.
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Just so everyone knows, I'm ok. Don't let my drunken ramblings give you the impression that I'm a boneless mass of flesh. I'm really not. I'm actually quite happy. I've ridden two days in a row, with perhaps 3 more ahead of me. I've been taking lots of pictures, and I have my big camera with me again. I spend two really nice days on the trails in Phoenix, and now I'm in Southern California where the air quality is horrible, but the temperature is nice and you can almost see the sun through the smog. I've even been riding the singlespeed, which now has a brand spankin' 20t King Kog on it. I've bought 3 pairs of new shoes, including a pair of high top pink elephant Vans. It's fall here, and as I wrote before that means the pumpkin ales are flowing everywhere. Things are good.
Things that are bad are pretty consistent: I don't get to spend quite enough time at home. My government is taking us into the shitter, and trying to bring the rest of the world with us. I'm still sick of the usual excess that exists here, and realize that I'm not making things any better by buying 3 pairs of sneakers that I don't need. I'm far away from my closest friends and family, and the days are now very short.
But, there's a very cool thing happening soon that I'm looking so forward to that I can barely stand it.
So, there you have it.
3 comments:
Oh you sound a lot happier in this blog entry!
I wasn't really unhappy in the others, Matt. Just more pensive I guess. That's probably from the alcohol.
Phew!
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