Mr. Booth, in honor of your impending arrival, who is this sculler?

Bonus NJ wildlife shot.

Smoke on the water...

Alexis leads the lightweight women down the 2k course.

Take solace in the fact that previous swimmers at the fall speed order include two time Olympic Silver medalist Yuri Yanson.

Terrible place to row, no?

Schwegs, doing yoga with the great blue heron.

Sometimes I am reminded why Lake C is one of my favorite places to row. Starting line at dawn.

Winners of women's pair, Logan/Lind

Gevvie winning the women's single

And last in the first flight, but certainly not least, Alexis winning the lightweight women's single.

Peszek/Mceachern winners of the men's pair

Newell/Sopko winning the light men's pair

Go Mike Sivigny!

And Andrew throwing it down in the lightweight men's single.

Cat herder--Liz O'Leary trailing the varsity fours field at this morning's Women's Foot of the Charles

So many arches...

Paper trail--just some of the plane, bus, and train tickets from my European adventure.

Lake Geneva and Ouchy

Who needs leaf peeping in NE, when you can get in SUI?

Altar candle at the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Lausanne

Zoï clearly hates the camera.

A touring octuple on Lake Geneva

Bye Alps... See you soon, I hope.

A night at the (Olympic) Museum. The world record for high jump is on display in front of the museum.

Dave!

Team RBC in front of Heather and Tim's new rowing home, Rowing Club Lausanne

The food here is terrible!

Fountain in front of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.

Inside Cathédrale Notre Dame de Lausanne

And another local.

Let's be honest, this is really why I am in Europe. :)

I got to see a break in the clouds in Switzerland. And it didn't rain for a few hours!

Coolest building ever?

I went down to the river today. I don't know when the upstream dams opened, but if 200-300 people got caught in this, it would be an unmitigated disaster.

A particularly gnarly island floating past RSC Cerea, the host of the Silverskiff.
And finally, lest you think these are isolated happenings...

Themes of this trip--neon and umbrellas.

The first thing I noticed in Italy was graffiti EVERYWHERE. So finish-line-from-a-can wasn't a huge surprise.

And this is what a cancelled regatta looks like.

And this is what heaven looks like?

And the local ballet. Rowing is out, tooling around is in.

Late night on the Po

The Po river supports multiple forms of self propelled water vehicles. Not pictured--five million eights. Because there ain't none!

My ride for the race tomorrow. Pretty sweet Filipi that clearly went to worlds this year (El Salvador, I believe).

A little wet over here in Torino.

Bye Boston, see you in a week!

Nice shot, E. And on that note, I am launching across the pond. :)

Dug out this oldie but goodie in honor of our recent snow storm. Phew.

Almost a minaret.

Oh hey LaJoan

Sometimes they just about literally land in front of you.