Breakfast

Best part of a healthy breakfast? Nutella on toast.

Yep. I'm at home tonight chillin by myself. Roommate is out of town, family is scattered, girlfriend doesn't exist. The cat, however, is very much here.

I think tonight might be a good time for some bike work. Although I don't want to put on my new drivetrain if it's going to be raining all week...hmm. I shall have to ponder this dilemma. Good thing I've got time!

Also, riding in the rain is awesome.

Russia

Looking at my stats, I have more pageviews from people in Russia than any other country. I'm not sure who you might be, but I appreciate you reading my blog. Thanks.

The Easy Road

I have this thing where I like doing something just because it's very hard. I'd much rather spend my effort trying to do something very hard and seemingly out of reach than doing things that I know I can do. In my view, things that are very easy to do aren't as worth doing as harder things. Those get me excited. Just sayin.

I think I'm about to make a $22,000 gamble on my future. That's putting my money where my mouth is. And it's scary. Almost scary enough to not try for it. But that's the hard part that makes it interesting.

I would rather go big and come up short than sit around and do the same thing I always do for the rest of my life.

Also, I think that I might have posted a blog very similar to this recently, but I don't really care. It's what's going through my mind at the moment.

Regensburg

Man, I LOVE really old cities. This one is definitely the oldest one we've been to, and you can definitely tell. We toured a massively old city, and looked at the cathedral with the bones of some long-dead saint on display. Did I mention that I love really old cities? A lot of the reason for that is cathedrals. So cool.

All of the cities that we've been to in Germany have been incredible. They all have this awesome mixture of old buildings and history and then the modern shopping areas. The awesomeness is helped by the fact that most of the streets are cobbled, the are hordes of people constantly walking around, and there are bikes EVERYWHERE.

I have to say that the highlight of the day was eating an unbelievable lunch at a 1000 year old sausage restaurant by the river. The best sauerkraut and mustard I've ever had.

Also, right by the Miles' house there is a beer store. In this beer store, you can get a fantastic bottle of beer (German beers are something like 20oz rather than our paltry 12oz) for what equates to about $0.90 usd. You can't walk into craggy and do that. And this is just as good.

Innsbruck and friends

Innsbruck was fantastic. Surrounded by mtns, cut through by a river, and filled with pretty Austrian girls. We went down on a bit of a whim, found an awesome hotel, and got to walk around in the early am for a while before our train took off. This is possibly one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, surrounded by both rolling hills and massive snow-capped mountains. The train ride in and out was absolutely fantastic with spectacular views going over the pass. We also stopped by a semi-local bakery for some treats...delicious, but honestly still prefer the goods of one BMB.

After that foray, we headed up to Regensburg to see Justin and Hanah. We ended up hanging out in their house and playing games and watching movies all day today since the weather was beyond awful. The music studio here is so sick, and Justin has gotten to do some pretty sweet things while putting out really great music. It's cool to see where all the magic happens. Tomorrow we're going to tour Regensburg by bike which I'm super pumped about.

Finally, look at the bottom of that mini-Nutella package. See where it's made? Yeah, that's the city we were eating it in. You're jealous.

The Alps

So right now Michael and I are sitting in a hotel in Innsbruck at the moment, and are planning to do some alps viewing tomorrow. We already had a good day in a small Olympic town earlier today, although I can't imagine being able to spell the name. But it's been a good time. Right now we're also eating probably the best stolen I've ever had (sorry BMB, yours is delicious too...). And drinking beer out of a vending machine.

We stumbled on a snowshoe race (you can see it in the picture) where they had made snow for this event. It was kinda like a local TT series where only locals come out to play. Very weird though. Also it was at the base of an Olympic ski jump, so there's that.

Tomorrow we are going to head up to Augsburg and regensburg to visit one J Miles and see that part of the country.

Finally, I saw a macked (mac-ed?) out carbon ht (like euro-tricked out) with a 600w motor in the rear wheel. Dumb.