Blog 13

We woke up in a hostel in Port de Pollença. I woke up before Augie did which gave me time to walk around the port and explore. It was a neat area although it was pretty dominated by tourism and old British people. I was excited to get back into the wild. Once I returned back to the hostel, Augie awakened and we packed up and hit the road. We biked across the entire north end of the island but it was pretty flat for the most part so it wasn’t too hard. About halfway through our journey, screws on Augie’s bike fell of making it so he couldn’t hold his bags. We needed to put our brains together again to get around this obstacle in the road. We decided that I would take the bags to the nearest restaurant that could hold the bags and provide WiFi so we could stay connected. Augie would bike to the nearest bike shop to get screws. With the exception of Augie almost having his stuff stolen from some folk on ATVs, our plan worked pretty smoothly and we reunited at the restaurant. The rest of our ride was beautiful but slightly more difficult as we entered a smaller mountain range of the northeast side of the island. Our directions were taking us to a refuge in a national park that would allow us to camp. Once we got into the park, our directions on our phones were useless and we needed to navigate through the signs. We biked in the park for about seven more kilometers. The ride was on a gravelly first road that was very steep downhill. We went very slowly and ended at sea level at a completely secluded beach. I rinsed off all our sweat in the ocean and set up camp. We were the only people there which was quite nice. We used our stove to cook a tasty nice dinner and called it a night. Tomorrow we bike down the west end of the island! Although getting up those steep gravel roads should be hard in the morning, it will be another exciting day!