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Debbie and I ponder returning to Italy. There's a lot to see.
However, one misadventure we recall is having to sleep in a train station after failing to find a room anywhere - despite spending hours looking. It was a national holiday and everyone was on the road.
Think about accommodation on the nights you're there are:
Tuesday April 25th -Liberation Day (Il Giorno della Liberazione)
Monday May 1st - Labour Day (Festa del Lavoro)
Counting down to our rendezvous you guys! Looks like we will just miss meeting up with Susan Carpenter. On past tours we had more flexibility in the schedule to have been able to make the meeting her.
1 year agoYou should go! The interior of Sicily would be fantastic on a hog. We saw many when we were there.
1 year agoThis will be fun. I'll be watching this space for info about the route because the Wild Hogs (my tough motorcycle gang) are considering Sicily in the next year or two. Give the Italian moto gangs fair warning that the Wild Hogs are coming to their turf!
1 year agoI don’t believe you need a subscription to create events on RideWithGPS. Let me know (through email, probably) if you want me to coach you through it.
I use an iPad, and one of its options is to save a screen print as a photo image.
Ok non technical Rachel here, how to "snap an image"? And to create an Event, do you have to have a different account to Ride GPS?
1 year agoSo are we! And we’re anxious to see your new eBike!
1 year agoLiebe Rachael, lieber Scott, ich freue mich über die Tage mit euch!
1 year agoI can’t believe it didn’t occur to me that we’ll be flying on the Ides of March (we arrive on the 16th), but that’s not too auspicious, is it? And I was a Latin Club officer back in high school!
The map was generated from RideWithGPS, and then I snapped an image of it. I created an Event for Sicily, loaded all of the individual stages into it, and then used its function to display all the routes on one map. Each colored segment is a distinct route. Here’s the event:
https://ridewithgps.com/events/195785-it23a-sicily
How do you create these maps separate from the Ride GPS?
And love that you go to Italy and start on the Ides of March!
Racpat
Hi! We arrive in Palermo April 9 (yes Easter) and you will be in Syracuse. We are debating how long to stay in Sicily or to hurry through and spend more time in the Balkans so we may very well merge our routes in Messina!
Racpat
No worries! If I don't get upset when someone calls me "Mrs. Zacharias" then he can't get upset for the reverse.
1 year agoThanks, Jacquie. Maybe I’ve heard that before, but I don’t remember it. I’ll correct the narrative.
1 year agoAl doesn't read journals (how I ended up with someone who's not a reader, I don't know) and hasn't even joined CycleBlaze to make sure I don't say anything bad about him. So there's no way you would know he's not Gaudet but Zacharias. I didn't change my name when we got married.
1 year ago
I don't think you are going to beat Monty to Messina with that route, but it looks wonderful. Looks like there is a stop in Trani. If you have time (and if you don't I'd encourage you to make it), take a day ride up to Montegrosso for lunch at Antichi Sapori. It's an amazing meal.
1 year agoLooking forward to following your adventures. I have to travel vicariously as it's going to be a few years before I'll have the time to go on another tour.