Bike Across Italy - Day 1 - Arrival in Rome and Fano
A duffel, a Bike Friday, and a laptop on your back - the uniform of the professional BF World Traveler May 12, 2007: Day 1 PHOTO GALLERY JUST MY LUCK. I haven't landed in Italy in primo health. I've been uncharacteristically under the weather for more than a month after suffering a bout of laryngitis that came down on me like a ton of bricks on Easter Sunday. It took an eternity to pass. Darn damp Oregon weather. I had to cancel my Indianapolis and Chicago talks and head straight for NYC. All the fitness I'd acquired from 3 months in Australia riding three times a week with the BF Club of Sydney over winter and attending Desert Camp in March seemed to go down the tubes. Well that's how it feels. But rather than complain, we must simply treat life like the weather - there will be sunny days and stormy days and you just, well, weather it. I got on the plane in 97% condition and, suffered a second setback. Somehow I must have eaten someth