We are back

We arrived in Boston yesterday, almost 11 hours after getting on the plane in Paris. A medical emergency caused the plane to land in Reykjavik, Iceland, which delayed our trip several hours. It was good to be home.

Thanks to all of you who kept up with our adventure. I hope that you had as much fun reading it as I did posting it. I am sure that my desire for completeness, and often for precision, caused many (ok, most) of the posts to be longer than any person might reasonably be expected to read. If you didn't make it through all of them, I completely understand. I wrote them as much for me as I did for anyone else.

Words alone, even as many as I posted over the last week, can't capture how special the trip was. When you can do something that you love (cycle) with a close friend in a spectacularly beautiful place, you can count that as a pretty good week. I feel lucky to have been able to do it, and I hope that my joy came through on these pages.

Au revoir.

P.S. Just wait until next spring - Keith and Andrea's Excellent Japanese Adventure - coming to a web site near you. :-)