I’ve arrived in San Diego on Saturday evening, coming down from the mountains in 40 deg C heat and high humidity, plain suffering! Additionally I’ve had two punctures (only one puncture and a defect valve as I found out later), strangely on the inside of the tube where the rims are!
Then I arrived at Tom’s place. Tom is my CouchSurfing host for a few days and he helped me a lot by letting me send the camera and hardware to his place before I arrived. Tom and Omar live really relaxed and I’ve had such a nice time here. His girlfriend Lynna also made me feel like I was @home, she’s maybe not a good car driver but a genius when it comes to painting and a lot of fun to talk to.
Having tested the new Canon Digital Rebel XSi camera with a nice travel lens, remote control, battery grip, filter and more, we set out for the beach and soccer field the next day.
It’s so much fun with the new DSLR camera I just don’t want to stop shooting any more! It fires fast like a machine gun and the quality of the pictures is phenomenal. I enjoy all the manual controls, the analog zooming by rotating the lens, the new circular polarization filter and remote control. I can’t wait to use it in South America!
And as some of you might already know, my father will join me in a few days in Caracas, Venezuela. Together we will cycle down the Andes to Chile for half a year.
The recumbent arrived back at home after a several month journey by container ship from China to Europe, just about 2 months ago. Norbert Gurt, my neighbor, made sure it would arrive back at home. The cost for sending (almost 800 Euro) got kindly paid for by my father - thank you so much!
And even though my father had a lot of things to do before leaving the country, he still managed to make a DIY 4x 1 watt Seoul P4 LED light, that looks just frightening:
I can’t wait to scare the crazy car drivers away with the immense light beam resulting from the setup!
Just today my sponsor and producer of my beloved Speedhub 500/14 has posted a news article about the Project VELAIA and the unification with my father. It’s really a pleasure to work together with the Rohloff team.
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