TransAlp Day 0

My honey arrived today and I couldn't be happier.  After picking up the Focus station wagon we hired for the week, we drove to Oberammagau to sign in and pick up all the promotional materials they seem to stuff you with at these events.  The one particularly useful item we each received is a huge Jeantex duffel bag.  I put everything I brought into it and it is still only half full!  Now we are safely in Bad Kohlgrub for the night.

The weather is beautiful, but is predicted to become quite nasty in the coming days.  So, we have been preparing as best we can and we hope for the best.  In the meantime, here are three of the things that make me happiest - my wife, my bike, and a the mountains: