Best Western Park Inn Saratoga Springs

We finally got an offer in on the house!! We had two showings this weekend and one of them put in an offer! We counteroffered today. Now we'll see if they accept! And if so, we'll be on our way to selling the house! And this person already has sold their house and is planning to close on Tuesday. So we don't even have a contingent offer on him selling his house. Man oh man oh man I hope that this works!

Just a quick note...

Jacqui and I made it back home from our awesome 16 day cruise. I'm gonna work on posting up all of the days' entries and pictures.

We still haven't sold our house yet... But on a good note, the house wasn't buried in snow when we got home either! I'm heading out to Brazil on Saturday, so we've got a lot to finish up before then.

I'm getting kinda antsy again...been in the office for 3 weeks now. Luckily on Monday I head to Finland and Sweden. I'm getting to take an all-expenses cruise from Helsinki to Stockholm and back for 3 days for an end-of-project meeting! Then I go to Russia for a week to train some operators and maintenance personnel on our equipment.

I'm trying to plan out ...

When I left this morning, the temperature outside was around 37F. Talk about cold. And the poor motorcycle took a while to warm up. I rode up to Gore Mountain first just to find out exactly where it was, then went to Indian ...

... a race official on the course. Sure why not?!?!? I can do that for you. Ended up, the race officials me and 2 of the other riders were carrying were going to be marking violations on the athletes on the bike course. Now I didn't tell my official that he was going to be my first passenger ever...that might have made him nervous.

It was a lot of fun, especially when I was getting told to pass bicyclists ...

... Panda Bears, a black feral cat roaming the tall grasses, what I think was a raccoon munching away at the yummy grasses by the roadside, and groups of motorcyclists once again. If I had more time, I would have gone to see the "Jello Museum". Can't imagine what's in there. Preserved jello molds from years back?? My brain is working better today and i surmised that the exit signs with the giant question mark, must mean if you have ...

The first part of the ride from the village of Lake George to Glens Falls is mostly on a bike trail. It was nice to have a shorter, much flatter ride the next day down to Easton Mountain, where I attended a retreat over Labor Day weekend.

I camped on the lazy Schroon River that night. The weather continued to be perfect, and Schroon Lake was great for swimming, much nicer - and warmer - than the muddy river. That morning, I did a loop west up over a major ridge to Olmsteadville and Minerva. Nothing like a two-mile climb before breakfast. I packed up after lunch and ...

The weather was a bit overcast and chilly for the early part of the day as we skirted the eastern side of the Catskills. The terrain heading north becomes fairly flat between the Catskills and the Adirondacks ...

... in every way ! After leaving BeerSheva at noon on Dec. 31, we made it to the Tel Aviv airport, encountering lots of army vehicles and war planes and attack helicopters flying overhead. Again, a bit too much adventure ! But the airport was a very quiet and safe place to spend the day, and then we got into the air  right after celebrating the New Year on the plane on the runway !  During the course of the 12 hour flight I guess we technically rang in the New ...