Sunday, February 28, 2010

T minus 12 days

You might wonder why the first photo for my tropical bike tour would be DC buried in snow....

Well, I leave for Hanoi in 12 days - and my Vietnamese visa took three weeks to obtain.  First - there was a minor snowstorm.  Then -- it was lunar new year.  In any event, my daughter Alyssa (who took this photo) is walking the passport over to the Laotian embassy herself - so hopefully I'll get this before I leave!

A description of the trip is available at this URL.  I'm doing some spinning to get my legs in shape - and looking forward.  Around here, we got rain instead of snow - but the roads remain too messy to ride.