Quote Originally Posted by SadieKate
MP, that is so wonderful to hear. Same one you emailed me about from the hospital during our chat?

You guys should consider Bend for a vacation. Incredible road biking, trail running, superb food, better alcohol, family friendly, dog friendly, no sales tax . . . I'd say mtbiking but it might make you cry. Someday, I'll convert you. This winter -- Mt. Tam or Bolinas Ridge. Just needs to be dry.

Yeah, probably the same guy. There are two guys we've really become friends with and Mike and I have between us coached them in probably 5 - 6 centuries. This one lives in Sausalito on a houseboat and is just such a great guy - very into cycling and all things French and I lent him my French copy of Lance's book during one of his low periods. (Always fun to read a book you've read already in English - much easier than reading a book for the first time in French - like when I struggled through LA Confidentiel.) Anyway, we're going out for Chinese food at my new favorite place - they serve this lamb dish called Cumin Lamb (or, if you are my smart aleck father in law "Coumadin Lamb" - renamed in my honor.) It is HEAVENLY.

I like Oregon. They have good wine.... We should all go to the Steamboat Inn. I know they have fishing there, and I am sure there are good cycling places nearby.