A Giant Trip
Packing tonight for a press trip to Reno, Nevada. It’s a press launch organised by Giant. I’ve travelled to lots of countries with work but my US experience has been very limited. I’ve spent the obligatory 2 weeks in Florida with the kids and that’s it.
I’ve just come out of a weekend of solo 24 hour racing at the Giant T-mobile mountain mayhem so I’m pretty tired already. Tomorrow I’ll spend 13 hours in the air and then there’s the jet lag… Apparently Reno is at 6000 feet asl so that should do me some good 
I fly back on Sunday, arriving Manchester 9:30am Monday, probably just in time for any jet lag to kick in all over again. But hey.. enough of the moaning. I’m being flown out on Giant’s dollar to be looked after, fed, watered and then given nice bikes to ride through the Nevada desert. That’s pretty good and I still consider myself very lucky to have a job that throws up perks like this on quite a regular basis.
I’ll be looking around for tacky US souvenirs for the important people in my life and maybe a rock or two from the desert
When I get back it’s straight into deadline for issue 36 and we still have half an office to move into our new place. And then there’s the legal stuff and nonsense we are dealing with, money owed but not paid… But before that there’s Nevada so I’m just going to enjoy the next few days away