Two Wheels move the Soul

Day 13 Arabba to Florence View from our bedroom After having a great evening trying pizza and calzones with beer at the local pizzeria we woke up the next day ready for an Italian type breakfast of buns and coffee. Instead we were pleasantly surprised to see the typical German type  breakfast being served. This made our overnight there even better value! It was a bit foggy up in the mountains (it burns off by mid 9:00 am) and we headed to Arabba to make our road connections to Passo De Salla. There are a ton of mountain villages in the Dolomites and each one has ski lifts basically that come right into the village. Essentially making every town a ski town and every villa, or hotel or BB "on the hill". Actually everything is on the hill all the time.I started to characterize that the ski lifts were like bus stops in Calgary or Edmonton they were that common and frequent. And every town seemed like Whistler BC. We headed to the Passo de Salla and this area needs a bit

Europe 2004 Introduction Ever since Sandra and I took the kids to Europe in 1991 we said we would be back and since it was Sandra's first time and my third I continued to want to ride my motorcycle in Europe having got the motorcycling bug there in 1965. Well this year motivated by the fact we bought property out at the coast and will make sailing a regular pastime we decided to do something different and go back. Then we learned that Pat Peck and his wife Belinda were going to be there and we decided to see if we couldn't meet up with them. Planning the trip to make the most of the time/value was fun but very detailed. See trip planning here .  We can tell you it paid off immensely and we met people along the way who are astonished at what we know and how we planned! Saturday mornings in late winter we would have the fireplace on, coffee in hand, have the laptop connected to the web and 3-5 travel books over as we strategized where we'd go. We used the Horizon'