Posted a whole bunch here under "Photos". Will do a full trip write up soon.

Finally found a wireless connection! I've been here in France following the Tour for almost two weeks (which means it's almost time to come home!). We spent 10 days in the Pyranees riding all of the big mountains there and seeing three stages of the Tour. I've always been a cycling fan but have kind of wondered why people spend days waiting for a sporting event that goes by in minutes but now I know exactly why. It's the world's biggest tailgate party and more fun than words can express. Here's some choice pics and...

Google Earth is pretty freaking cool. There's other places to get satellite imagery but Google Earth wraps it into a package that has pretty much endless possibilities. I downloaded it last weekend just to see what all the fuss was about, and realized that I could use it to measure distances. A bunch of us from work swim one night a week in Lake Washington and we've always had to guess the distances between two docks that we do laps between at about 50y. I fired up Google Earth, found some football...