Fri 16 Sep 2005
This is just a quick post to let anyone who is still following know that we’re still doing well over here, and at the moment I’m posting from a B&B in the heart of Tuscany, Italy (Toscana to the locals). I’m on a painfully slow dial-up connection, as the Italians apparently haven’t discovered hi-speed Internet yet. I have a report to make from my trip a week and a half ago to Brussels, Belgium where some co-workers and we stumbled upon the ‘Weekend of Beer’ festival. But more exciting, though, was an opportunity that popped up mid-last week for me to travel with Alisha’s european team as the driver/mechanic for a whole week of racing in Germany and Italy. We spent last weekend in Nurnburg, Germany for a quick World Cup race, then spend a day driving through Germany, Austria, and into Tuscany, where we are now. We’ve made it through 4 stages of racing so far with 3 left to go by Sunday when the race ends in Florence. We’ll hop aboard a night train to get back to Munich so I can go into the office on Monday, then hopefully we’ll find the time to make more updates (with lots of pictures!) soon there-after.







September 19th, 2005 at 7:57 am
Very professionable beside being good and most informative, and keep Alysha on her bike and not under it. Continue to ejoy.
September 26th, 2005 at 6:42 pm
You gotta get to steppin with these updates. How else can I live vicariously?
September 27th, 2005 at 3:32 am
ya ya. I’m working on it. Here’s a quick synopsis: went to Brussels and drank some good beer, went to Nurnburg to watch a race, went to Italy for a week to watch a race and drank a lot of good wine, frequented Oktoberfest a couple times last week (and you know what happens there).
OK, maybe by this weekend i’ll make a quick update. In the meantime, be sure to check out the updated photo galleries.
October 11th, 2005 at 1:33 pm
Waiting on current updates (-: (I don’t know how to insert the smiley faces either) Have really enjoyed this Joe! (”resembled” the Alabama remarks) Happy 1st anniversary on the 23rd!!!
October 12th, 2005 at 3:41 am
Hey Beelers! Everyone’s favorite Southern California natives turned Alabamians, eh?
OK, well now that I’ve confirmed I still have at least 3 readers left, I’ll think about getting another post up - for real this time!
I have plently to write about, so be sure to check back. Trips to Brussels and Italy, carousing at Oktoberfest, and Alisha’s adventures to Central America, which involved hurricanes, mud-slides and erupting volcanos. I’ll have to get it all in soon though - we’re planning a 1 year anniversary trip to Paris at the end of this month!
October 14th, 2005 at 6:52 am
I am still reading also
October 14th, 2005 at 6:59 am
excellent - i was writing down some notes for a new post as I got the latest comment notification, so I promise one is coming within a couple/few days.
October 22nd, 2005 at 5:08 pm
Hey Joey & Alisha,
Happy to hear you are still enjoying it over
there. I just helped your cousin Laura Beeler
with a marker that looks like her in Alabama!
October 23rd, 2005 at 3:03 pm
haha - i thought that was a little suspicious when 4 of my cousins all signed the guestmap within 5 minutes of each other!
thanks though - it’s cool to see where everyone is reading from (if they’re reading)
about to put up another post, finally!