This morning's bike ride was awsome. Pretty steep in places though for me trying to do a recovery ride.
This was the view at the top of the climb on my bike.
Today we went to Hallstatt, Austria which was one of the high points of the trip so far. It's a beautiful little old town right on the lake.
Mitzi has liked paying at the parks we find.
We rented a boat and rowed around the town. The views change out on the water and you can see even more of the town.
At the town church is a cemetary, and when they ran out of room, they would dig up the remains after a certain number of years, gather the bones together, then paint the skulls with the names and dates on the skulls. Pretty interesting.
6-8-10 Tuesday
I was going to do a recovery ride today, but it’s kind of difficult doing a true recovery ride here, as there are no flat areas to ride. I picked a canyon to ride up from a little town. It felt like riding up the upper part of Bald Mountain Pass and ended at a ski resort. I think I got passed by 2 cars the whole ride. At one part towards the very top I passed a sign that said 12% grade, and I was trying to keep my heart rate and power low as I was supposed to be doing an easier ride. I was doing 275W, and going 5.0 mph, and my cadence was 50 rpms. Pretty steep stuff to try and do a recovery ride on, but the ride was fantastic, the temperature was perfect (about 60 degrees), and as usual the scenery was great.
After threatening them with their lives yesterday if they didn’t get ready sooner, we actually left the chalet today by 11am. Pretty impressive as we only have 2 showers, nobody really does much until I get back from my ride, and every has breakfast/lunch before we go. Today we went to Hallstatt. I had seen pictures of Hallstatt and it looked pretty amazing. In fact, I have a picture of Hallstatt as my desktop on my computer at my office I thought it was so pretty. We had also got a picture/puzzle of Hallstatt and put it together a few months ago. It didn’t disappoint. It’s a pretty enchanting/amazing place. It’s build right onto the lake and very steep with the village going almost straight up. There are 2 churches and a couple dozen homes/gausthauses. We found a sign at a hotel that said internet so we went in and they let me use their internet to again catch up on emails. I’m really disappointed that we don’t have internet here where we are staying. There is an internet connection, but I can’t pull up the internet when I plug in. I also bought a wireless card to be used around WiFi zones, but can’t pull up a wifi connection either. I was hoping to check and respond to emails each night, use Skype to call the office and others at home, check the weather each day as well as the sites we were planning on visiting the next day, etc. That’s probably been the biggest frustration of the trip so far, especially because I thought I had it all covered ahead of time. After the kids going for ice-cream cones while I caught up on emails, we walked around the town a little bit, and got doner kebaps and sausage sandwiches for lunch. Then as they we family was sitting near the lake and playing, I went and rented a row boat. They didn’t have any of the pedal boats, or I probably would have got one of those. I surprised them as I rowed into view. I took everyone out in turns on the row boat. I’m glad we got the boat, as the views from the lake are even better as you can view the town from a bit of a distance. After the boat Mitzi wasn’t feeling well (she had a bit of a fever), so Kindra and a couple of the kids went up to the car, while Megan, Bradley and I went to check out the old church up on the hill. They had a really cool cemetery around the church and a church-house where they stored bones and skulls that had been dug up, dried out, and painted. A little flyer they had indicated that due to limitation of size in the small grave-yard, that after about 10-20 years the skeletons were dug up, and because flowers and other pretty things were used to decorate the graves, flowers and other things were painted on the skulls along with the names and dates. We drove home and had a great dinner of caprese salad (tomatoes with mozzarella cheese and basil and olive oil), soup, and rolls. After that I’ve spent about an hour catching up this journal/blog for the last couple of days. I’m now 100% caught up. Whew!
I was going to do a recovery ride today, but it’s kind of difficult doing a true recovery ride here, as there are no flat areas to ride. I picked a canyon to ride up from a little town. It felt like riding up the upper part of Bald Mountain Pass and ended at a ski resort. I think I got passed by 2 cars the whole ride. At one part towards the very top I passed a sign that said 12% grade, and I was trying to keep my heart rate and power low as I was supposed to be doing an easier ride. I was doing 275W, and going 5.0 mph, and my cadence was 50 rpms. Pretty steep stuff to try and do a recovery ride on, but the ride was fantastic, the temperature was perfect (about 60 degrees), and as usual the scenery was great.
After threatening them with their lives yesterday if they didn’t get ready sooner, we actually left the chalet today by 11am. Pretty impressive as we only have 2 showers, nobody really does much until I get back from my ride, and every has breakfast/lunch before we go. Today we went to Hallstatt. I had seen pictures of Hallstatt and it looked pretty amazing. In fact, I have a picture of Hallstatt as my desktop on my computer at my office I thought it was so pretty. We had also got a picture/puzzle of Hallstatt and put it together a few months ago. It didn’t disappoint. It’s a pretty enchanting/amazing place. It’s build right onto the lake and very steep with the village going almost straight up. There are 2 churches and a couple dozen homes/gausthauses. We found a sign at a hotel that said internet so we went in and they let me use their internet to again catch up on emails. I’m really disappointed that we don’t have internet here where we are staying. There is an internet connection, but I can’t pull up the internet when I plug in. I also bought a wireless card to be used around WiFi zones, but can’t pull up a wifi connection either. I was hoping to check and respond to emails each night, use Skype to call the office and others at home, check the weather each day as well as the sites we were planning on visiting the next day, etc. That’s probably been the biggest frustration of the trip so far, especially because I thought I had it all covered ahead of time. After the kids going for ice-cream cones while I caught up on emails, we walked around the town a little bit, and got doner kebaps and sausage sandwiches for lunch. Then as they we family was sitting near the lake and playing, I went and rented a row boat. They didn’t have any of the pedal boats, or I probably would have got one of those. I surprised them as I rowed into view. I took everyone out in turns on the row boat. I’m glad we got the boat, as the views from the lake are even better as you can view the town from a bit of a distance. After the boat Mitzi wasn’t feeling well (she had a bit of a fever), so Kindra and a couple of the kids went up to the car, while Megan, Bradley and I went to check out the old church up on the hill. They had a really cool cemetery around the church and a church-house where they stored bones and skulls that had been dug up, dried out, and painted. A little flyer they had indicated that due to limitation of size in the small grave-yard, that after about 10-20 years the skeletons were dug up, and because flowers and other pretty things were used to decorate the graves, flowers and other things were painted on the skulls along with the names and dates. We drove home and had a great dinner of caprese salad (tomatoes with mozzarella cheese and basil and olive oil), soup, and rolls. After that I’ve spent about an hour catching up this journal/blog for the last couple of days. I’m now 100% caught up. Whew!
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