Moo!

Looks like a fantastic plan!

Chalk up a like for cattle photo!

What a great plan!

Insane? I think that guy is COMPLETELY NUTS.

If your Sicily tour is half as beautiful as the last one, we readers are going to be in for a real treat.

We’re both very excited about it, of course. Sicily is still at the top of our best tour list, and it will be wonderful to go back. We’re especially excited about being there during Easter. This has been the plan for months, really - don’t tell anyone, but this whole journal has been a sham up until now. Fake news, you might say.

Hooray for Sicily! It is never a mistake to do something you love twice and it is always different. Keith and I still sigh dreamily about biking from Verona to Brenner in October. We had done it before and were planning to train that section...we had a flight to catch in Zurich. Instead we took the train from Innsbruck to Zurich and biked the route again. Best. Decision. Ever. You are going to love being in Sicily again and I can’t wait to read about it.

Yow! First time! You northerners are so bright. She’ll be glad to hear that you discounted the two higher alternatives.

Let's see, some of the possible prime numbers after 40 are 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97. Hmm, now which one to choose. You say her current age is a prime number and that this year is a milestone. The only possible conclusion is that this year she will reach either 60, 80, or 90 years of age! I think I might drop the last two guesses, though I expect that at those points she will still insist on 42 mile day rides.

Thanks for the suggestions, Bill. We’ve been doing some research h ourselves. Unfortunately it’s an unseals Le storage unit - the ceiling is a wire mesh open to the fire extinguishing system - so some of the ideas aren’t an option. We’re going to pack items at risk in sealable containers though, and put some sort of repellant in them. Fortunately we don’t have many things that would be vulnerable to this.

You may already know of it, but if you buy paradichlorobenzene (mothballs) you can keep moths out of your wool items. Buy several big containers and place them around your items and punch a small hole in each container so the pdb will slowly evaporate (sublime) out the hole and protect your items for long periods of time. If possible, plugging cracks or other places in the storage location will increase the concentration. Maybe stuffing thin plastic foam (not polystyrene, because it will dissolve and turn to a sticky gob with pdb) packing in cracks around doors as they are being shut. Also putting them in large plastic bags, such as a mattress comes in along with the mothballs is even better, possibly duct taping the open end. Anything you can think of to maintain a high pdb vapor concentration by reducing airflow. Of course they will have the mothball aroma for a while after being removed but that is better than holes!

Definitely the look of a trustworthy financial advisor!

Definite possibility. We love France! A tour that includes a region of France is always near the top of the candidate list for the next tour. We’re losing count now, but if my log is accurate last autumn’s crossing was the eleventh time we’ve biked there. We’ve never been to Brittany or Normandy, but other than that we’ve toured through most of its regions. There’s so much there that we could pretty happily visit France every year. We’re thinking hard about a tour from Brittany to Salzburg through Burgundy, a region we haven’t seen since our first European tour in 1993. We’re way overdue for a return visit.

I have the impression you two haven't done a lot of cycling in France aside from the Med coast, or am I wrong? There are so many fascinating landscapes inland and small roads, Brittany's coast is wonderful, too. You could do a great zigzag through France.

The fogginess is perfect. I've always viewed financial advisors this way. But I've never seen one wear a tie with a tee shirt. I like it.