The Queensbury Hotel Glens Falls

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.

... and this is a 16 day cruise...Rome, Florence, Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Cartagena, Gibraltar, Seville, Madeira Island, Ft. Lauderdale...for $800pp! Which includes meals and soft drinks. Now my flights will be covered by work because its cheaper to fly from Moscow-Rome, Ft.Lauderdale-Albany, than it is to fly direct from Moscow-Albany. Jacqui can fly from ALB-FCO ...

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.

As most of ya'll who have been reading this know, Jacqui and I are part of Couchsurfing.org. We used couchsurfing while we were in Israel so we could meet lots of new people and also to save some money.

Well we finally got to host couchsurfers! We're kind of in an out of the way place, so most people will pass us by or not even see us in the search results. Plus we're not near any good ...

I made it back with no injuries to myself. I can't say the same for the motorcycle. Let's count the casualties...

The front fender fell off after the mounting tabs broke in a construction site in Wisconsin. I lost one of the chrome frame covers somewhere along the way. My windshield mounts failed (though they had been jerry ...

... first, and lay claim.

But fear not!! For these poor men could not handle the magic of the tickets to make the tickets deliver them across the world. And their claims were lost!

And so the responsibility and power of the magic tickets fell upon Billy, who with his lady by his side, looked at the map of the known world and said, "Monday is a good day to go to Micronesia!"

Alas! The ...

... went to Adam's parent's house (he brought his twins up to see the grandparents). Went out bowling where I bowled over 100 once (I truly suck at bowling). Then out to the bars in Buffalo. Several people we had never met before randomly came up talking to us like we were old friends...but Adam told me this was normal in Buffalo. Then we went to Jims for one of the best steak ...

The night before I left, I took my bike and rode along the Jordan River Parkway near Saratoga Springs, watching a beautiful sunset go behind the mountains. Sometimes I like to just be alone.