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Back to Rome... it's all over

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Tuesday October 22 - one final push into Rome today, pack the bikes, final dinner with the group, and tomorrow back to home. Always a day of mixed feelings having had a steady diet of great cycling and a wonderful group of fellow cyclists and support staff, then tonight it's over, and tomorrow morning we all scatter... while the memories will be great, it just isn't the same as the real experience. Last day... mandatory group photo, everybody attired in their nice new 'Viva Italia' jerseys... ...then onward on mostly backroads with one more day's worth of stunning landscapes... It wouldn't be a TDA day without hills to climb and even a short bit that was at least mid-teens climb gradient... ...more hillside towns... ...one lovely 15-km descent, mostly on a rail trail, segregated from traffic and mostly but not always a good surface...  ...with views down into  valley towns, orchards, and vineyards... With just under 30 km to go, we get our first view of the sout...
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Amalfi Pompei and more

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October 21 - last night on the road - tomorrow we ride what looks like a fairly long day into Rome bringing to a close our Rome-to-Rome bike ride. so this blog entry is a quick catch-up to where we are. October 15 - rest day in Maratea and a hike up to the statue of Christ the Redeemer and the views down into Maratea where we were staying and back down the coast from whence we came October 16 - back on the bikes, continuing up the coast to Paestum - a fairly long 140 km day with detours due to landslides. Lots of lovely scenery, but the greatest significance to Rae was that it was one year ago that he had the surgery to replace both knees. He could not have imagined back then how well he would recover or how well those knees would perform. So one year later, a 140 km day with over 2200 metres of climbing, a total of over 2000 km on this trip alone and over 6000 km of cycling since the knees were replace Here riding with Fiona, a friend from the Korea-Japan trip last year, Paestum is ho...
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