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Photo of the Day – Ede-n

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Third day on our bicycles in the Netherlands. We had stayed at a friendly army base with some really awesome people in Ede. Our bike legs were finally starting to ache a bit. Hills and Germany were just around the corner. My bike had issues the day before, so we went into town to the only bike shop. Lucky for me it was run by Steve-O from Jackass’s nephew. Unlucky for me, he accidentally popped by perfectly pristine tube with an exaggerated hand gesture. Lucky for me again, he had an even better one to replace it with. Unlucky for a fellow rider of mine that we did NOT have Vla on the menu for breakfast tomorrow. His lucklessness, was my luckiness. Lush trees, marching soldiers with bazookas, the perfect bike path and signs. A start to a wonderful day of riding.

Warmth Under a Canopy of Glowing Green - Ede, Netherlands

 

 

Photo of the Day – A Bird at a Bar

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Our first day of riding in the Netherlands was a piece of Stroopfwafel. The 50k, flat, well laid out, well marked, beautiful and cute bike networks of this great bike nation led me and my Global Agent cohorts through cobble streets, draw bridges and windmills to the mini-Amsterdam, Utrecht. Sam, our couch surfing host, was busy that evening. His girlfriend, was not. She took us into town and here, we sit, at a floating bar on an Utrechtian canal, sipping sweet aromatic beers, making miniature paper cranes to be flicked into the night shiny waters below up to be toyed with by some speckled fowl that paddles by.

Bird, Beer, Bar in Utrecht, Netherlands

P.S. for more information on Stroopwafels please check out rikomatic’s enjoyable description of “How to Eat A Stroopwafel”:

Journal of a Road Warrior – Originally Posted March 16th, 2010

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Well… Sometimes I cannot find internet, but none the less…I shall blog, you better believe.

Library House - Day 2 - Bellingham

I type this sitting on the deck of what one referred to it as a co-op home. The occupancy numeration is undetermined, the walls are littered with posters about the inner soul and BoyzIIMen (apparently the B2M is a “family heirloom) and the wonderful souls that I have met who live here are into ‘circus, yoga and healing. PLUS there is an alternative library that occupies the 2nd floor. Crazy wonderful ay? They weren’t even the people I was suppose to couch surf with…it just kind of happened after a successful movie showing at the Old Foundry thanks to Naomi and Seeds of Change. Donovan and his partner Hillary were on hand to make a batch of humus with delicious fallafel and Jack, an old crooner from Georgia filled in with song as well as the bearded and very Emile Hirsch-esque Eric, who also has a pension for whipping out a physical trick or two. Not making much sense ay? One of those you had to be there moments to really appreciate it. It was a wonderful day in Bellingham…the ride here was super tough, but I am hoping the rest goes well.

Trees, Water and Chucknut

Off the Anacortes and beyond!

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