To any crazyguyonabike.com addicts

[DeniseGoldberg]

Denise, slightly off-topic yet on topic at the same time, I finally had a chance to check out your gorgeous photos from your tour (on the other site). Wow! Are you a professional photographer? If not, you could/should be. They were absolutely lovely. I truly enjoyed them, especially the darling puffins and the gorgeous flower close-ups. Very artistic! Thanks so much for sharing your tour with us. It's just wonderful and quite inspiring that you got back to something you love so much. I can't wait to do the same!
Emily

Emily -
Thanks so much for your compliments. I'm so glad you enjoyed my photos - I've often wondered if I could turn my love for traveling and capturing images into something professional, but for now it's just for fun. The puffins were truly amazing, and I really wished that I had a camera with a big lens for that visit. I'd go back to that island to watch the birds again in a heartbeat.

This trip really meant a lot to me, because it proved to me that I really am back. And you will be too... but it does take time. I remember last summer hoping that I'd be able to do my planned trip to Hawaii in October as a biking trip even though my docs told me that it was probably too early. By the end of August I realized they were right, and while I did go to Hawaii and have a fabulous time, it was a hiking and driving and resting trip. So the best advice I have for you is to listen to your body and to give yourself a chance to recover. It sounds like you are (and have been) actively working on your recovery, so I have no doubt that you'll be back on your bike (outside!) when the time is right. And I know how hard it is to be moving slowly, but moving is a good thing, and making good progress is a good thing...

--- Denise

[DeniseGoldberg]

Ah, I just (on a whim) tried crazyguyonabike.com, and it's back!

I'm so glad... I've missed reading, and I've got to finish my journal!
Happy reading to everyone.

--- Denise

[DeniseGoldberg]

I just heard from Neil Gunton, and unfortunately the crazyguyonabike site is misbehaving yet again. The site is now hosted at an ISP in Corvallis, Oregon and even more unfortunately, it's after hours there, so Neil will have to wait until morning to debug the problem. Hopefully he will be able to resolve it quickly. In the meantime, we're back to the waiting game.

--- Denise

[DeniseGoldberg]

crazyguyonabike.com is back!

Neil - our devoted but probably somewhat crazy webmaster - has had a rough couple of weeks, but he has now replaced what turned out to be a bad disk drive, and everything is back. For anyone who is interested, here's a link to the message that he put out about the latest issue: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/whats_new/news/.

--- Denise

[MomOnBike]

Boy, do we have a lot of reading to catch up on!

Does anyone else find it amazing that Neil provides the CrazyGuy service just out of the goodness of his heart? I'm awed and humbled. What a guy.