By Artur Ciesielski | Adventure , Challanges , Places
I got to Czestochowa just after noon. I left the norka at 7:30. It was not an easy ride, but it was fun. The sand got to me, but the cycling path in the first photo below was the fresh cream with wild sour cherry on top: just awesome. If the trails were mostly like […]
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The day started out early and pretty awesome. I left the room at 7:30 am. The streets were quiet and empty, the town still asleep or at least just getting ready for the day. The first photo is just a few pedals outside the town on the road to the next destination. It rained during […]
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It’s about 6pm. I’ve had 5 beers and 3 bottles of water, that is 4 liters of liquid, not one pee. It all evaporated or soaked into t0 my clothes. I left the house at 9:45, got to the starting point 10 kilometers later and set off at 10:30. Now some 100 kilometers later I’m […]
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I was, possibly, going to go to Lodz after returning from Zurich, but Lukasz suggested a trip there on my visit this last weekend, so we went. It was really just a short trip. It took 90 minutes to go one way and we had about 5 hours to see a few thing this city […]
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When the lush green, neatly cut as if a piece of tiles art in hundreds of hues of green, ground came into view the Lufthansa plane was just barely off the ground and seconds from landing. Shaking and rattling from the turbulence the small plane, only half full, approached the wet runway. It overran its […]
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Japanese gardens provide a means of achieving the peace of mind and clarity of thought. The garden is a miniature representation of the world; its elements include rocks, water, trees, buildings, gates and fences – all these elements are important, none more than the other. These elements are carefully manicured – aesthetically pruned. A well […]
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Pinetop – never been there before, never been to this part of Arizona before: it surprised and delighted me. When Remus secured lodgings in a lodge in Pinetop we were quick to agree, especially after checking out the forecast for Phoenix and Pinetop where Pinetop was an instant hit with only double diget numbers. The […]
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The sun is blinding. The ground, the hills, the sky are white washed with light. There is no steam, no moisture, everything is bone dry except those few plants that protect their stores of water with a waxy film on their leaves and bodies. I’m in the middle of the Phoenix Mountains Preserve, but I […]
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These neighborhood exploratory rides were a good decision. Despite the 100°F + temperatures I’ve been getting out on the bike. Once on, the Cadence stem tells me what to do – a top of it are the words – “keep going” and that is exactly what I do. Almost everyday so far for 1-2 hours I […]
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I saw these clouds on a late afternoon in Phoenix on March 3rd 2014 looking toward the west with the sun just starting to color the sky. I don’t remember ever seeing clouds like these in Phoenix and the only other place I saw them was somewhere on the internet. These are called the Kelvin […]
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Holmby Park In Los Angeles is a little park surrounded by grand homes. Its main features, for some, are a little golf course and 2 grass bowling fields, but I think its wonderful large healthy trees are beautiful. The first photo is of one of those trees, a eucalyptus. The photo below is of a […]
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It’s now Winter and the last of the fall leaves await their final drop. The smell of decaying leaves, the crackle under the wheels and the burst of the final colors before the branches lay bare in the light blue sky signal that my favorite season is at hand, sans the snow. Okay, the real reason […]
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