Inn At Saratoga 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.

... about $700, and FLL-ALB for $152. So I'm figuring we could do this trip for about $3000 out of pocket. That's less than $50/day/person!! Hopefully Jacqui's bosses will not have a problem with it and the cruise line will agree to let me board in Florence if I have problems making the Rome departure.

Then in November it'll be back to Russia for a month or two!

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 ...

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.

... south down the woodsy east side of the lake. To get to the western shore of Lake George, I had to tackle the biggest climb of the trip up CR 11 - not recommended at the end of a long day - but spectacular views down across the lake at the summit. That night, I camped at a fantastic state campground right on the banks of the lake.

Someone up there must like us - it rained all day Saturday, but we had booked Friday and Saturday nights at the Glen Lodge so we didn't need to bike. Although, since we didn't have a car, we were getting cabin fever by evening, and biked down to Warrensburg to get some dinner. Otherwise, I got a lot of reading done.

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 ...

... Oregon and back to NY in a 48 hour timespan. (NOTE: I had to plan my trip like this because I've got a class on the night of the 14th and another class the morning of the 17th that are only schedule once a month and are booked 3 months in advance. And the meetings I'm holding in Oregon could only happen the week of Nov 12th). I fly out of Albany(NY) at 6:10 am, spend 40 minutes in Cincinatti, then ...