Today was the seventh milestone via in-door bike! Thanks to joining Planet Fitness, I could pick up where I left off almost two years ago. It was a shorter leg than Amsterdam’s distance, only 425 miles but my laziness and Covid-19 prevented me from knocking it out sooner. The other factor was discovered through an audit of the 11 years I’ve tracked through a spreadsheet. To my horror, I discovered that I had only attained some land marks much later than my Math and data-entries said. For example, I didn’t arrive near Jeremy’s house around January 2020, it was really November 2021. Not sure where the heck I came up with all those extra miles to put me in Cork, Caracas or Honolulu sooner than I hoped. It’s all straightened out now.
What you’re seeing above is Genoa’s flag and just like Ireland, the English had to steal the design. Defenders say, “Oh, they both have St. George as their patron.” Agreed yet England didn’t experience the Renaissance until a century later so I would think the concept of a national flag follows. When I first saw it, I thought it was an error. It resembled one of the many Scandinavian states or you could say it’s Switzerland’s turned inside out.
Next destination is Moscow, a little further at 457 miles. A great benefit with an in-door bike and imagination, I avoid all those awful Russian winters!
I need to get my stairs going too. I’m over 10,000 flights or storeys. I would like to get a couple thousand more this year or whatever it takes to come closer to 100 km straight up from sea level, the official boundary of Outer Space. The outdoor bike will be back in action when the weather is nicer.