Sunday, 26 December 2010

Riding Through Spain

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For England, we are having a lot of snow at the moment. It is cold. I saw a temperature of -11.5C the other day. Oddly this is almost the same amount in Fahrenheit -11.3F.My red bike is stuck in Ireland, awaiting the weather to improve so it can be road tested after having some work done on it. The...

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

The Leading Ladies are stuck in LA

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How about this for bureaucratic nonsense!It has been a few weeks since I delivered my bike, the “Leading Ladies” to the shipping agent in LA, so a few days ago I enquired about when the bike would be back in the UK. I was told by the shipping agent there is a problem as the US Customs people in LA wanted to see the original import paperwork before they are prepared to release the bike for shipping....

Monday, 13 December 2010

Thousand Mile Photos

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My regular readers will know that while I was on my tour, I stopped at every thousand miles point on my journey and took a photo looking forward. Most of the time, this meant just stopping, grabbing my point and shoot camera, jumping off my bike and taking a quick picture at the side of the road. I...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Thursday, 25 November 2010

New York, New York.

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After delivering my bike to the shipping agent in Los Angeles, I flew to New York for an overnight stop. I had decided to stay right in the middle of Manhattan, at Times Square.I had arranged to meet fellow blogger George F who writes an excellent blog called Riding the USA. George is from New Jersey...

Monday, 22 November 2010

Funny Signs

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Despite the fact that my tour of the USA is over, I still have a few more posts to do about it.As I was riding through the US, I occasionally saw a road a road sign that make me smile or laugh. I would often take a photo of these and I have been saving these until the end of my tour so I could post...