Visited Slovenia a couple of years ago, fairytale mountain and castle peaks, the green of the near summer Alps. Enough to be persuaded of a return trip.
Cycling adventurist, bikepacker, travel writer, photographer, speaker, professor of philosophy. Route designer of the VTXL, the Green Mountain Gravel Growler beer tour, the Silk Road Mountain Race course 1st edition, and many more.
Category: Europe
Back to Athens
Last days in Greece, a final circuitous up over crossing arc back west to Heraklion, then the ferry.
Greece Journal
Beauty and hills, water blue horizons. Mountains with clouds and weather up top. Home of the Homeric gods.
Crete Climbs
Ascend a small road from Paleochora into the mountainous interior, away from the sunny beach, away from the Libyan sea.
Greece Photo Album I
The islands of Paros and Santorini, and Meteora in Thessaly.
Western Crete Pt. 2
Almost seeable enough to shut the lamp so I do, the kind of road with constant curves and the gentlest of ups and downs. Timecheck and it’s precarious at this pace, looking at the contour of the track I’ve loaded into my GPS, maybe, maybe with five minutes to find the dock and get my bearings.
Western Crete Pt. 1
Crackle along the farm machinery double track, all to myself this time of the year—the gusts roiling off of the Mediterranean as if desperate for sure footing on land, even this island, relatively small in the expanse but made of the dense stable rock of its high mountains.
Ancient Greece
In these places the implication of ascent, lift limitward. The shard that cracks the cryptography of Ancient Greece, that we leap, maybe in a protestful denial that we’re fragile, maybe in a realization of an authentic transcendence.
Short Pedal in Greece
For the tour itself: fenders, custom rear rack, two small Ortlieb panniers, a Revelate front sling with tent and bedroll.