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Yow, a rare triple play on words! Well done.
2 years agoYou’re going to have to fen’d for yourselves out there.
2 years agoThanks for the alert. I hadn’t heard this and will start keeping an eye out. In particular we’ll do our best to avoid damp roads.
2 years agoThanks for asking!
Motorcycle adventure begins 7/12 and goes through 7/27 or so.
After that, he and I will take our bicycles with us on a camping trip to Gifford Pinchot and then Ron and Bruce have Oregon Outback penciled in on the calendar for September.
Keep up the research!
2 years agoGlad you didn't get too swamped and bogged down, and could admire the views after all.
2 years agoOh the humanity!
2 years agoWhere there's flint in the walls it's likely also in the roadway. Keep an eye on the state of your tires and brakes, especially when the road surface is damp: it makes sharp, highly abrasive dust and tiny chips that eat the contact points on bikes for breakfast. We had several flint-induced flats, and probably ground ten percent off the life of the rims, during our tandem tour in England in 2002. You've got disc brakes, so it may be less of an issue, but still...
2 years agoWeed scooper? Dredged? Some unknown type of canal cleaner?
2 years agoThanks for checking in, Jen. Hope the Grumby clan are all healthy and happy. Is Ron off on his bike bike adventure yet?
2 years agoThis is a great response. Thanks! I’ve never heard this, and it’s really a nice thing to know. I didn’t really hold much stock in the idea that he invaded England with elephants anyway.
2 years agoThe Napoleonic Wars coincided with a peak period for British & French ‘collectors’ pilfering/acquiring (depending on your POV!) objects in Greece & the Near East (and to some extent Italy), which meant there was also quite a lot of scope for each side capturing the other side’s loot as it sailed to Northern Europe. A fair amount of stuff now in the British Museum was originally intended for French collections, and vice versa for stuff now in the Louvre…
2 years agoGood to see the research project continues...
2 years agoHi you two!
I've been a slacker keeping up with your journal and had missed Rachael's sinus infection.
Hope you're feeling better!
Pretty much that, Steve. It looks a lot like the equipment we would hire to clean weeds out of a lake. This one’s pretty new it looks like.
2 years ago