With my napsack on my back...
Aug. 10th, 2009 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
f4f3About (counts...) 17 years ago I bought a rucksack, packed it, and went to the U.S. for four weeks.
I flew to San Francisco, hired a car, drove along the Pacific coast through places like Carmel and San Luis Obispo, cut inland at Santa Barbra for Las Vegas, caught the train from there to Chicago, and chilled for a while in Ann Arbor with people I'm still proud to call friends. In many ways that trip changed my life, and the rucksack ended up in the garage of the suburban semi-detatched I moved to when I got married. Eventually I threw out the rucksack.
Today I bought a new rucksack.
On Saturday, I'll catch a plane from Glasgow to Paris, and meet up with my son at the Gare Austerlitz on the left bank. We'll get on a train just before midnight, and wake up in the Basque country. We'll spend a day and a night there, then get some more trains to the Med via Madrid.
From there we'll sail through the pillars of Hercules, and arrive in Tangiers.
Then we have a week to join some dots, before spending four days in Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. We'd like to take the overnight train to Marrakech, drive through the Atlas mountains and flirt with the Sahara, maybe spend a day in Fes and Meknes. But maybe we'll find a place in Marrakech to explore the souks and the Place of the Dead instead.
The new rucksack is about the same size as the old.
I wonder if I can pack it as full?
I flew to San Francisco, hired a car, drove along the Pacific coast through places like Carmel and San Luis Obispo, cut inland at Santa Barbra for Las Vegas, caught the train from there to Chicago, and chilled for a while in Ann Arbor with people I'm still proud to call friends. In many ways that trip changed my life, and the rucksack ended up in the garage of the suburban semi-detatched I moved to when I got married. Eventually I threw out the rucksack.
Today I bought a new rucksack.
On Saturday, I'll catch a plane from Glasgow to Paris, and meet up with my son at the Gare Austerlitz on the left bank. We'll get on a train just before midnight, and wake up in the Basque country. We'll spend a day and a night there, then get some more trains to the Med via Madrid.
From there we'll sail through the pillars of Hercules, and arrive in Tangiers.
Then we have a week to join some dots, before spending four days in Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. We'd like to take the overnight train to Marrakech, drive through the Atlas mountains and flirt with the Sahara, maybe spend a day in Fes and Meknes. But maybe we'll find a place in Marrakech to explore the souks and the Place of the Dead instead.
The new rucksack is about the same size as the old.
I wonder if I can pack it as full?
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Date: 2009-08-10 08:43 pm (UTC)By the bye: can you and yours rec me any good bike websites? I am pondering a birthday present for the significant birthday of a significant other, and I don't know where to start.
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Date: 2009-08-10 09:00 pm (UTC)What sort of bike are you putting him on? I have trouble seeing beyond the Specialized range, esp. if you can pick up one of last year's models.
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Date: 2009-08-10 09:11 pm (UTC)A...bike. For commuting and quickfire touring. Unlikely to be used off-road. I was thinking of one of those hybrid thingies but the technology's moved on so much, I'm likely to embarrass myself. 'I'd like to buy a record player...'
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Date: 2009-08-10 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-10 09:35 pm (UTC)*looks around nervously*
I used to know all about bikes. *sigh*
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Date: 2009-08-10 09:39 pm (UTC)Let me have a wee browse...
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Date: 2009-08-10 09:48 pm (UTC)http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Specialized-Tricross-Singlecross-2009-Road-Bike_22006.htm