Chuck Lewis is a professor of English at Beloit College in the United States. He is teaching a travel-writing course in Florence as a part of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Study Abroad Program.
The 31 bus stops at the Gino Bartali bicycle museum in Ponte a Ema, where the cycling great was born on the southeastern side of Florence 100 years ago, but this sort of pilgrimage called for a bicycle ride. I had brought my bike for my five-month stay in