Just before Covid hit

[Old Crank]

Memories while digging through the phone pictures.
January 2020. My wife had to go to CA for a couple of weeks. I took a short trip to Ferrara in Italy to stretch my bike legs.

To get away from this:


I took this:


To see these things:


The Po river

[SARose]

1. Beautiful

Love the perspective on the last one.

We’ll done!

[Old Crank]

2. Thanks for the comment.

[UpInArms]

3. Great pics!

Thank you for sharing

[Grumpy Old Guy]

4. Nice Bianchi!

I still have my '82 Bianchi Limited in the garage.

[Old Crank]

6. Thanks.

The last year of steal frames in their Reporto corso (?) Line. Many miles on it.
This was the 3rd. Bought the first and after two years there was a frame cracked. It's warrantee replacement was stolen two years later from the roof of our car. It's a better bike than I am a rider.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

8. They make great bikes.

My Bianchi Limited was an Italian bicycle that was made in Japan. It was a great bike. I rode my first double century on it.

[Old Crank]

9. Most excellant.

[mike_c]

5. Nice!

I was in norcal finishing up after fall semester and my wife was in Arizona, where we live now. She left in February if I remember correctly so we wouldn't be stuck in two different states when the lock down began, and just made it home before travel became more difficult. Fall 2019 turned out to be the last semester I set foot in a classroom-- my last couple years were taught online due to COVID (and my age).

[Old Crank]

7. I got out of Italy

Before we knew what was happening. My wife came back as they were worrying about Chinese fkights. Could have been a disaster. My daughter worked as a cashier through the whole plague.
Fun times.