Vernor's Tour D'Afrique

Brian Vernor finished the Tour D'Afrique and he's got photos and a closing story on the Velo News website to prove it.

Welcome back, B.

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Headed to a long gravel bike race this weekend in the Flint Hills of Kansas—one of the most peaceful places I've been.

From Wikipedia:
"Beginning in the mid-1800s homesteaders replaced the American Indians in the Flint Hills. Due to chert in the soil, farming was not practical, and cattle ranching became the main agricultural activity in the region. Sparsely populated today, the Flint Hills contain most of the remaining tallgrass prairie in the world."

Tour d'Afrique

Old friend of Good Problem, Brian Vernor, just wrote from the 120 day Tour d'Afrique — a bike race / expedition from Cairo, Egypt, to Cape Town, South Africa.

He's a few weeks into it with many, many more to come, and you can read about some of his experiences and see some of his photos at VeloNews.