Multi-modal biking

September 14, 2023

Two new Tally-ites joined us for this week of riding. This morning we took off in a van to Rovereto and then rode back to Riva del Garda. We had to be back by 2:30 to catch the last boat back to Desenzano. Otherwise we would be out of luck and stranded at the wrong end of the lake…. Because of the time crunch and because we got a late start we decided to shorten the first day and start the ride from Rovereto. It’s a good thing we did as we just barely got to Riva in time to get something to eat before boarding the boat.

Loading our bikes on the trailer for our van ride this morning

Two new Tally gals…. Er… Tally-ites have joined the fun.

Gelato along the trail in Mori! It sure was tasty.

Our first view of Torbole and Lake Garda

Torbole, at the top of lake Garda. Large downhill to get down to the lake. At one point on the downhill we had to stop for a stoplight as they only let traffic go one direction at a time through the switchbacks. We were very grateful for that stoplight when we saw the number of cars lined up waiting to to come up the hill.

The boat ride was an event of its own, we saw so many sail boats, wind surfers, kite surfers etc. we traversed all of lake Garda from north to Dohle and east to west. We stopped in 15 different ports along the way.

They had us put our bikes in a little room on the side of the ferry

A one design race with boats from all over Europe

Wind surfers and kite surfers were fascinating to watch

We stopped in lots of different ports all of the way down the lake crisscrossing back and forth across the lake

We are the blue dot headed down the lake to Desenzano

As sunset came the mountains got very mystical looking

Today's ride: 15 miles (24 km)
Total: 314 miles (505 km)

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