Further Cycling Adventures : Getting ourselves and our stuff overseas

To start off I apologize for saying We would show you our bikes in the last post. In the final shuffle to get ready the bike packing pictures were never uploaded, and now they are left behind. I will include a few pictures of the bikes being unpacked and reassembled in this post so as to illustrate how we go about getting ourselves and our stuff to our destination. You can also see a few pictures from some of the sight seeing we did in Milan. As you can see it was cool-ish when we arrived, low to mid 50's with mostly overcast skys. Forecast is for rain too, so I guess we will just have to see what we find.

Tomorrow we hop a train for Genoa where we hope to begin riding. Getting ourselves and our bikes through the Metro and train stations should be entertaining. Our next post will no doubt show us off on our own figuring things out as we go.

Departing Colorado Springs Airport. That's everything we'll have for or 10-week trip. The cases will stay in Milan at Antonio's apartment. We opted to check a third bag to lighten our carry-on load (since we we each were allotted one checked bag we only had to pay for a single checked bag. Often we carry-on whatever we can't stuff into the boxes (which we maxed at at 49.5 and 50lbs respectively, the blue duffle bag weighed mayb 30 lbs, mostly light and bulky stuff including our rear racks), for Susan this was a lightweight duffle and one of her panniers packed as a day bag, Darryl ended up with a single lightweight backpack for a carry-on.

Unpacking and assembling the bikes is a bit easier than jig-sawing them into the travel cases. Takes about and hour per bike to get them put back together, and then some adjustments and fine tuning. We were appreciative of the basement storage and work space that Antonio had for us to use. Last time we built the bikes for a trip we were in a hotal room.