Preparations

The buildup to this trip - biking across Slovenia - has been a long time coming.  We signed up more than 6 months ago.  It always seemed so far off in the distance, and now here it is.

The Trans-Slovenia Challenge.  If you look up Slovenia in Wikipedia it tells you that the country is the size of Massachusetts.  So, it's like traveling across Massachusetts.

Seven days of riding.  Total distance traveled will be about 460 miles.  Total elevation gain will be about 58,000 feet.  We will be staying in Ljubljana, Rimske Toplice, Logarska Dolina, Kranj, Bled and Kranjska Gora.  The country is very mountainous and 2/3 covered by forest.  By all accounts it is beautiful.  I hope to be able to take some photos, post them here, and let you decide for yourselves.

I took a bike trip this same week of September in 2008.  The entire trip all the news from back home was about Lehman Brothers.  We arrived back home and shortly thereafter Lehman filed.  I hope this trip is not as financially momentous.

I am going to schlep my laptop on the trip despite Andrea's well-meaning protests to the contrary.  I think I won't regret having done so.

Off on Friday night.  Stay tuned.