Some photos

When I moved to Austin, I got myself a digital camera, making it simpler to allow others to trace my ways in this new country. So this is the place for the friends at home to see where I have been...

Clicking on an image will produce a larger version. To see earlier or later pictures, use the menu bar at the right, which is sorted reverse chronological, i.e. newest sets of pictures at the top.

Ride across Iowa (August 2007)

Some 35 years ago, a few people started a prank to dare each other to ride all the way across Iowa with their bikes, about 500 miles. At Texas A&M we say that if you do it twice it becomes a tradition, and they've done it every year since. Except that these days there's more than 10,000 people doing it, camping in tents every night (luggage is transported by big 18-wheelers), riding 50 to 80 miles each day for a week, and eating mountains of food in little towns on the way that may in some cases have only a couple hundred people living there.

Jill being from Iowa, we thought we should do that once too, and with Jill's dad and a couple of friends of his, we did it in the summer of 2007, a really nice experience sharing the road with that many people. Below are a few impressions from that ride: