While I am on holiday, I invite you the go to the Freewheeling Freelancer, where every other week, I will review the epic cycling tour of Europe’s great rivers. Enjoy!
Thanks,
JT
Armchair Travel: River Run 2017
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Armchair Travel: Regensburg to the Rhineland
This week, the Freewheeling Freelancer follows the Donau-Main-Rhein canal from Regensburg to Nuremburg and Frankfurt. Enjoy!
Thanks,
JT
Scars
SWEAT BLINDED HIM as Jack pumped up the seven-percent gradient. Hilda was already at the top, standing next to her bicycle. She grinned at him as he stopped on the level top. His heart pumped from more than the exertion as he took in her tall, Viking figure, the high cheekbones, anthracite skin, and the fine, black hair protruding from her helmet in a ponytail. Continue reading
Armchair Travel: Passau to Regensburg
This week, the Freewheeling Freelancer resumes his ride along the Danube, with a change in plans in Regensburg. Come back here next week for another sea story, if I don’t write a short story by then.
Thanks,
JT
Sea story: A commuter’s choice: gas or cobblestones? (1987)
The cold, light drizzle, like a heavy mist, envelops the van as it pulls from the curb outside the Banco di Roma below our apartment building. In the rear window, we can see the seven blond heads bobbing in their seats as the scuolabus carries them off for another day at the American school, 33 km north of town. I turn to Carol, and give her a hug and a kiss. Continue reading
