The experience of wearing an all-in-one triathlon suit was now behind me and it was time to continue my virtual tour around the world. Oops, the first week back is filled with travel time.  Well there is always next week. Yah, well partially.  Oh, But there is the next week.  The excuses were piling up so high that mushrooms saw fit to just pop up to see if I noticed. Ah, it felt so good.  My road bike experienced 87 miles and it all was….just like riding a bike!  You never forget.  But…..then I had problems with soreness in my back.  Off the bike for a week and now I’m ready to get back out there.  November brings with it the hardest ride I will have attempted.  It’s not so much the distance as it is the climb with over 4,800 ft. of up’s and down’s.  Yup, that means extensive training on the neighboring hills….and I know just the place to go.  With 9,266 miles passed by towards my virtual ride around the world of 24,900, I’m finishing up the last leg of my journey over the Pacific.  I have 1,133 miles to go until I reach Manila in the Philippines with Vietnam, Thailand, and Myanmar to follow. I hear the mushrooms in those countries are edible!