Cervélo Here's the bike from hell! I ordered this sucker in March and got it in August. I'm having a display case built for it in the living room. No, really, I need to start riding it at some point. The orange Fondriest is for sale if anyone's interested.

The whole beast, 7.9 kilos

Way cool carbon spokes  ¶ 10:55 PM

  Corsica, again Another summer in Corsica. We gotta stop doing this. But how many places can you do high altitude hiking and lie on the beach the same day? It seemed to be the only place in Europe that wasn't either burning down or flooding.

Moltifao, view from our balcony

Domaine d'Ostriconi, view from our bedroom  ¶ 1:08 PM

  Mister outdoors Balthazar had a horrible time. Enough said.

On Ostriconi beach

On the GR 20

This one too

In the Asco river

Up a tree  ¶ 1:00 PM

  Reflections 15 minutes of walking gets you away from 99% of the people. We had these places all to ourselves.

Balthazar watching the Martians arrive

Water, pines, granite

The Asco river

Skinny dipping pool  ¶ 9:57 PM

  The mountain The mountain attracts our surpassing self. As NYT columnist David Brooks said, "No decliningly virile American man should be content with a beach vacation when a mountain vacation is more in keeping with his inner longing."

Above 2000 meters on the GR 20. It took two hours of hard scrambling to get up here, but it was worth it.

Double jet crash  ¶ 9:56 PM

  Big air Last year: 150 meters long, 15 meters of air. This year: 300 meters long, 100 meters of air. Whoa baby. Lead us to the world's longest zipline! We did some via ferrata to get up to the ziplines but I was too scared to take out the camera.

Balthazar mid span

Arriving hand over hand

Ready for action

Patrice on the big 300  ¶ 9:55 PM

  Rocks Corsica is made mainly of granite. We usually think of granite as being gray or black. In fact it exists in many colors.







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  Patrice In her own way.

A break from school and exams

A close encounter with a deadly biting donklet. I have a picture of the bite but it's not appropriate for a family blog.
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  Ripples Not many pictures of bonehead. I like this one. Note the sexy ripples (not my abs, the water).
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  Beasts More of the same beasts. Cows are easy to photograph, they just stare at you stupidly while you take their picture. Lizards are a challenge, as are biting donkylets who think the camera is something to eat.

Veal cutlet on the hoof

That vicious biting donkylet again

Lizard n° 11 258 492  ¶ 9:16 PM

  Trees Corsica is full of mind boggling trees. Tortured, wind-gnarled ones, arrow straight ones grown for shipmasts, lonely hilltop ones, lollipop ones right out of a childs drawing, delicious spreading shade-givers.

Gnarled pine on the GR20

Aitone Forest

Aitone Forest

Moon tree

Mountain pine

Hitchcock tree

Shade and water

Garrigue in a windstorm  ¶ 9:09 PM