Posts

Showing posts from May, 2009

Following the Script

Hello, The last week was very productive. I have found health coverage, booked flights, received my UCI License and decided I should go, for sure. Health coverage was much easier to find than I thought, there is a program through USA Cycling that one can purchase accident health insurance. Done. My flights are also booked. I currently work at TA Associates, a private growth and equity firm, and they have been kind enough to allow me to use their travel company to book my flights. I will fly out of PHL on evening of June 29 th and return in September. The neat part about my flight is I will be arriving in London around 9am on June 30 th , a city which I have never been, so I am looking forward to spending the day checking out a few sights before I catch a flight around 5pm to Brussels. TA Associates is global and I've been offered to visit the London office and use it as a home base during the day if need be. Thank you TA! Travel Arrangements , done. An additional puzzle
Hello, So this is my first official post on a blog that I had intended to start nearly a year ago. My idea for the blog came about because I was on the verge of quitting my job and cycling across the USA. I purchased the maps, the bike trailer, the additional gear and I was ready for the ride across America. Instead I quit my job in April and sat around my apartment. I rode my bike a lot, learned to make baguettes, and took endless amounts of online personality tests. It was also the start of a more serious interest in learning a second language, French. Fast forward to the following year and I was in the same position only this spring was very different. Gert, Drew, and I were preparing for the ride of a life, the Tour of Flanders. It was April in Flanders and I was hooked. This is not so much a tale of what had happened but is about to become the documentary of an opportunity best described as, bombs away. It is the long flight to the target area, the seemingly lack of preci