Hello all! For essentially the first time since the start of this trip, I think I might actually get the days blog written and posted before I go to sleep, so that is exciting. Today was a good day, really it was a great day. The riding was easy; the road was not too busy; and, the weather was not too warm. Today started with a beautiful sunrise over Piacenza, which just set the day off to be quite pleasant.
The plan for the day was to ride to Milan, a ride that according to our route would take 75 miles, but according to Google should only be around 44 miles... So we went with Google and followed that route and thus ditched the route we were suppose to ride for today. This turned out to be a great decision as the mileage was much less; the riding was flat so we kept a great pace; and there was nothing to see so it is not like we missed anything by diverting from the planned route. A couple miles from Piacenza we stopped for breakfast, which because we had missed all the cafes and the only thing open around us was a Japanese sushi stand in a supermarket. We found some waffles and had chicken and waffles (or at least sotmething that would pass for chicken and waffles). This was not the tastiest breakfast we have had, but it was arguably the most protein filled breakfast so that was a nice change.
This post is intitled "Into the Kansas of Italy" because it felt like we were biking through Kansas. For most of the day all we saw were cornfields and straight, flat roads... If it were not for the signs in Italian and the lack of pick up trucks, you would not be able to tell really that you were not in Kansas. As I mentioned we made great time and ended up rolling into Milan around 14:45, about an hour and a half ahead of schedule. Since we had time to kill, we did what we do best. Found a cafe and had a cappuccino and just watched the world go by before us. Milan is an interesting city so far, we have not really gotten into the downtown (the UEFA Final is going on down there so it is a mad house), but it feels like a completely different Italy so far.
Tonight we decided to just cook something in the apartment where we are staying. So we just ran to the store and bought some basic pasta and chicken, just something quick and easy. All in all it was petty good and plenty filling so we are ready for our ride tomorrow. Tomorrow we are heading to Lake Como where we will hopefully be staying right along the lake, so I hope to have some pretty pictures of the lake for tomorrow's blog, weather permitting. A quick note on the weather, we have had great weather so far, but tomorrow we apparently are in for some rain, and then we are in for more rain for the next many days ahead... So hopefully the weather forecasters here are really bad and we will luck out and not get too much rain (though I am not too optimistic on that front).
One final note, I broke a GoPro mount today, apparently the cobble stone and ancient roman roads are tougher on a GoPro than those crazy mountain biking videos that you see. Luckily I had an extra mount, that I grabbed for some random reason so we are still good for the times lapse video hopefully. So it does seem like maybe my curse is continuing.... Hopefully it stops soon, or things are going to get more interesting. Anyway, that is all I have for now so best wishes and until next time.
So maybe Kansas with a few more trees..
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