2015 adventure planned

[Crankin]

The service we had on our previous Trek trips was fantastic, the leaders were excellent, and they knew their stuff about the local areas we were in. Now that we know what we know, the things we didn't like (the bragging riders, etc) we can sort of eliminate by choosing certain kinds of trips/options. We are both different kinds of riders, too. DH is more relaxed and I am just a better rider. When we go on tours, we tend to do almost all of the hard stuff, but a very slow, touring pace. Of course, some of the things we didn't like, like cliques of people who do the tour together and heavy drinking, you can't really account for. There was a group of friends on our Portugal trip and they were very heavy partiers, but they were nice; all different levels of riders and no snobbism about that. That made a huge difference. Funny, both this group and the very obnoxious group we had on our trip to the Czech Republic and Austria were from Colorado. There's probably no correlation, though!
The trip is giving us some motivation to train a bit more than usual and by going in June, we have the rest of the summer free to do local stuff. We always go to the Berkshires for riding, at least once. Also, we've kind of just decided to ramp up our traveling a bit. We aren't getting any younger... I am very excited also, about our nordic ski trip to the Methow Valley at the end of February. I know there will be snow! We've had a few trips up to Vermont and NH where that has not been the case.
Veronica, Iceland is on our list, too. It is very cheap to fly there from Boston and DH actually flew Icelandic Air to Paris last fall. He had a few hours in the airport there and got to see some scenery. They also encourage you to make a 1-5 day stop over there on your way to Europe, without any financial penalty.