After being on “vacation” for 1 1/2 weeks and pretty much only doing photography things, I decided to take a bike trip like I originally had planned to do during this time. Originally I had planned on riding to Budapest, but I didn’t have enough time to do that. So on Monday evening I dug out some old brochures that I ordered almost 5 years ago from the Bodensee (Lake Constance) Toursit board and on Tuesday I quickly went to the store to get a few things I needed from the sports store and some food from the supermarket. Late Tuesday night I got to packing and I took off for Lindau on Wednesday morning to ride around the Bodensee!
Some of you will find this hard to believe, but I DID NOT take my camera with me! The only thing I did was to write down the towns that I was in, the times I left and the distance I traveled. So I will write a short travel report here in this post over the next couple of days when I get a chance. For a summary, take a look here:
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It has now been two weeks since I started out on my trip, so I figured that had better put this together soon before I forget! This will be a work in progress…
On Wednesday, June 17th I took a regional train from Munich to Buchloe and changed over to a train to Lindau. The train from Buchloe was quite full, and there was hardly room for my bike. I sat next to an older couple that also was planning on riding around the lake, but they were going in the opposite direction that I was wanting to go. I got into Lindau at 13:30. I set out right away on the trail. I went over the bridge and followed the signs towards Bregenz. After a bit I got to a long strech, going along the right side of the lake, and it was dirrectly next to the water. Eventually I crossed over the boarder… I don’t remember seeing a sign but there was still the old boarder crossing building in the middle of the street like you almsot always still see. I did not see much of Bregenz and I didn’t stop to go do any sightseeing.
Hi all! I think it is about time for an update! Here is what has been going on…
I have been on “vacation” this week. I have not left my apartment often but have been quite busy here at home… I have gotten a lot done!
I finally got the computer parts I needed to get to get my “work” PC up and going again. It broke about a year ago and I haven’t had the time or funds to get it up and going. I didn’t really have the funds to spare but I had the time so I did it anyway! I got an AMD Phenom II X4 810 with an Asus M4A78-E AMD 790GX AM2+ motherboard and 8GB of RAM (but I only installed 4GB for right now as I am still in the old school 32 bit OS world!) I installed XP a few days ago. I finished copying a lot of the thousands and thousands of pictures, songs, and website pages a few hours ago. I still need to reorganize them and copy some of the files over. I also have most of the programs installed that I use, but I’ll have another hour or 2 of work to put in on that! I will have more hard drive space again and will not have to worry as much about how much space I have for pictures. The new computer will run much faster than this one I am using. I am expecting that picture conversions and what not will not take as long as they have been.
Yesterday I did a MAJOR spring cleaning! I vacuumed, mopped all of the floors and dusted some. Only place I didn’t mop was under and behind the couch.
Yesterday evening Karsten and Irina came over to look at their wedding pictures. That is one of my favorite parts of wedding photography; getting to see the newly married couple’s reaction to the photos and reliving the day with them. They picked out a number of photos so I have some work to do! 
On Monday I did a product shoot and was busy Monday night and Tuesday getting those photos edited since they needed to be done quickly before the product goes on sale.
I have also have a chance to look through the photos from the wedding I shot a week ago yesterday. I hope to get to editing those photos some time soon!
Next week I am also on vacation. I am seriously thinking about going on a bike ride. I really need to get away for a bitl. I originally wanted to ride to Budapest, but I don’t think that will happen this year. However, there is a trip that I could take and it would be quicker to get to and come back from and it is a trip that I have been wanting to do for a long time… riding around lake Constance (Bodensee)! I plan on leaving next Wednesday and will probably take the shorter route around for the sake of time. Anyone want to join me?
Well, that is about all for now. Time to get out of the aparment for a change and go on a bike ride!
I have decided to post updates when I ride here, always including the link to my current stats:Â http://www.hepler.org/mybikestats2009.htm
Today I went on my longest ride of the year to date, 60KM. It was pretty windy and a little cool today. First I stopped off in Gräfelfing to visit friends. Then I went up and had lunch at Schloss Blutenburg and afterwards went up through Dachau and headed east. I originally wanted to drop by my work and have some cake with my colleagues but I realized I wasn’t going to make it so I stopped off at the Feldmochinger Lake, relaxed a bit and then headed home.