I didn't really want to ride in Maritime Canada at all. I wanted an easy trip: Get met at the airport. Ride and camp with a pleasant companion. A person with tools and wisdom and kindness. Get delivered back to the airport. Call it good. So when I got the news 4 days before departure out of Boston that my friend's cardiac rhythms were playing improvisational jazz and he had to abort, it wasn't that hard to decide what to do.
Iceland.
I've had the guidebook for more than 10 years. I was already poised on the eastern seaboard. The return flight to Anchorage is a non-stop. And there are considerably fewer bugs.
With overnight mail order, I've got some fleece tights and overbooties and I'm ready to face the winds, rain and cold. I'd have preferred 6 more inches on the wheel diameter. But that just helps me decide to skip the interior and focus on riding the ring road around Iceland.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Iceland.
I've had the guidebook for more than 10 years. I was already poised on the eastern seaboard. The return flight to Anchorage is a non-stop. And there are considerably fewer bugs.
With overnight mail order, I've got some fleece tights and overbooties and I'm ready to face the winds, rain and cold. I'd have preferred 6 more inches on the wheel diameter. But that just helps me decide to skip the interior and focus on riding the ring road around Iceland.
I'll let you know how it goes.
