Category: Fitness and Other Temporary Obsessions

Having wrapped up both Petra and Giza Pyramid challenges, I realize I hadn’t shared the medals with y’all.

It took me time to get this done – mostly because I was on a cruise ship at the time and although we were on the go all the time, I was not “get 16.000 steps a day” levels of active most days.

The Longest Route (TLR) stretches on before me. It seemed like I’d never “reach” this virtual border between Turkiye and Georgia, but apparently never is longer than I accounted for.

Still just barely making progress, but it still means that I am getting to savor these amazing places as I go.

At 86% of the way around my virtual challenge around the circumference of the African continent, I find myself at the border of Libya.

If you’d forgotten I’m pedaling the Conqueror’s Appalachian Trail challenge, you’d be forgiven. I didn’t go to the gym on the cruise ship (actually the older ship layout hides the gym back inside the spa, so I didn’t even SEE the gym).

Having finished my virtual trek to Petra and virtually re-entered Egypt (and crossed the Sinai Penninsula) on my Virtual African Loop (VAL), it was time to start a new synchronous Conqueror challenge: Giza Pyramids!

So ends the side quest… I’ve finally returned to the path of the Virtual African Loop (VAL) after a quick sidebar on the map into Israel and Jordan.

It wasn’t the most active I could have been, but progress is progress.