Rest day! And a bona fide one for a change - we didn’t take the bikes out of the garage, and didn’t walk all that much either. We loafed around in the room for a good chunk of the day, avoiding the rain, reading, catching up on the journal, route planning. We made it out for some key errands though: lunch, dinner, and a trip to the sporting goods store for me to buy a new pair of bike socks. I brought three pair at the start of the tour, but am effectively down to one now: one was apparently left behind somewhere, and one was actually Rachael’s - which works badly on my size 12 feet: the socks slide down and bunch up around my toes, and hurt my feet. Oh, and one more thing - we looked around the town a bit, and in particular checked out the very impressive cathedral and cloisters. A perfect rainy day activity.
On the planning front, we’re trying to decide how much more time to spend in the mountains. We have a two night reservation in Ortiseistarting tomorrow, just a few miles off the Sella Ronda (Ortisei is another place we’re visiting for sentimental reasons - we stayed there during our 2010 ski trip also, and have wanted to see the region in the non-winter months ever since). After that, we have nine uncommitted days before our next reservation, on Lake Como. We’d like a few more days in the mountains, but it’s getting cold up there now and I think the higher elevations may be getting snow tonight. We’ll play it a day at a time, but we may be coming to the end of our mountain experience for this year.
