Hello, my name is Susan and I’m a 62 year old woman that retired and I sold my house and I’m traveling the world on my bicycle. I hope you will join me for my adventure. Thank you. Good morning from Ventiglia. Um, the guys that uh rented me the apartment last night were just lovely. Of course, they spoke Italian and one of them spoke a little bit of English, but for the most part, we were using Google Translate to communicate. But, uh, yeah, had a good night. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Well, it’s been a good morning ride, but now my uh route is blocked. So, this kind of stuff happens. So, now I’m going to have to figure out how to get around. I’m not sure. Looks like they’re doing some work. So, oh well, we’ll see how this goes. All right. So, I made it about 40 miles today and about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, it started raining and looked like it was going to rain all day. So, I decided that I didn’t want to ride in the rain and so I got a hotel room in the town of Alassia and uh Italy and um so and then as soon as I got in the room and got here and got cleaned up, then it stopped raining. Isn’t that the way it goes? I was having a good day of riding other than the one place where the trail was blocked and I ended up having to climb halfway up a mountain in order to get around that blockage. But otherwise, it was a a good day of riding. A lot of riding by the sea on bike paths and even when I was on the roads, cars were very respectful. So, um, so yeah, it was, um, overall a good day, but just a little bit frustrating because I wanted to make more miles. I feel like every day I go out and something happens and I’m not making the miles that I’m supposed to. So, but there’s always tomorrow. Um, so I’ve enjoyed my afternoon off. I took a a nap and caught up on some things I needed to do. And so now I’m going to go out and get me some dinner. I’ll see you in the morning. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Oh, no them now. All right, I’m leaving Alasio. It’s a Sunday morning. I uh have no idea what day it is as far as my day count, but I’ll put it in the video. I had a good rest at the hotel, but I really missing my tent and my sleeping bag. There just hasn’t been anywhere to camp. Um, so I don’t know. Maybe I’m missing something, but I’m going to try to camp tonight. Let’s see. Yesterday’s route had a lot of um cool tunnels, most of which were just part of a cycling route. Um it looks like today, pretty early on, there’s another tunnel, but it’s combined with cars, but a cycling route goes through there. So, I’m hoping there’s a cycling lane. Um I’m sure there will be if there’s a cycling route going through there. So um yeah, some of the cycling tunnels were very cool. They had music in them that had color uh colored lights that changed colors as you went through. Um one of them had history of cycling in Italy and pretty much all of their well-known Cyclist throughout the years had banners. That was nice. I’d like to go back through that tunnel actually and take time to stop and read. Of course, everything was in Italian, so I would have had to translate. I think I figured out what’s going on with my brake. I think that one of my disc brake pistons is dirty. So, I’ve got to um get to a place where I can get some degreaser and clean rags and try to clean it out. It’s not surprising that it would be dirty with everything that I’ve ridden through, but when they get dirty, sometimes they stick and I believe that is what is happening because the um the sound comes and goes and um that would make sense if the piston is sticking some of the time and not other times. So, no easy adjustment, but definitely something I can deal with. Um, all right. Yeah, this is the the route that Garmin is giving me, but uh can’t help but think that I’m not supposed to be here. Um just seems like a sidewalk. Anyway, beautiful morning. The uh rain cleared out overnight and I probably could have ridden more yesterday, but the forecast called for thunder showers. I don’t think they ever arrived. If they did, I was napping. Um so that’s kind of disappointing. But I think I’m going to go over to this road. Yeah. All right. Well, I’m going to turn you off and focus on getting out of this town. I always get Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Just so bad. I’m here in Goanova and um staying at the Holiday Inn and I’ve been um playing with points and status and the IHG credit card this year to see what I could do with it and uh stayed quite a few nights. So, I was able to get my room for free with points and uh ask for an upgrade because I have status and uh they put me in the executive suite. So, not bad for a free room. And um yeah, so nice bathroom and uh bed and desk. Got a little coffee area there. Got a really nice view of the harbor. You see the cruise ships out there. Um so yeah, free night in the executive suite. I fell out of place. just being a little old bike cyclist, whatever. Uh, so I think I’ve got to go get cleaned up and uh so that uh I can enjoy my room. Talk to you in the morning. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. If you’re enjoying my videos, please click like and also subscribe. so that you do not miss out on any future content. Thank you.
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When we see how civilized other countries are (a cycling and pedestrian tunnel!), it really serves as a reminder that this is what the world is like! Genoa is gorgeous.The whole trip is gorgeous. Such great videos!
It looks like you're still having an amazing time. Italy really is my favourite European country. So much so that I'm intending leading a group of us cycling the length of it from the Austria border down to Reggio Calabria next March/April.
My memories of cycling that coast in 2001 did not include biking tunnels or wide shoulders. I do remember being passed by Italian cyclists with enormous leg muscles. I believe that I cycled the whole way to Rome on the SS1 following the route that pilgrims traveled for centuries.
One piece of advice: if you’re thinking of going to Naples, don’t cycle through the city. Take ferries around the bay to the Amalfi coast. Capri, Ischia, Positano are much better alternatives. Enjoy.
Great photos as always! I also love how you amuse yourself (executive suite!!). What an amazing route these days.