Augie and I slept like babies last night and woke up fully charged for our first day biking. We loaded our bikes with our bags and hit the road. We had some troubles with finding the particular gas for the stove we had so we found another cheep alternative stove. Our maps took us off the road to a dirt path that wound through open fields with wild flowers, horses, and mountains in the distance. This area was beautiful and clean of trash. I am positive that I will have severe saddle soreness in the future due to all the juggling and bumping of that path. Eventually we were spit out onto a small backroad that took us winding up and down hills. Our destination for the night was in a national park so the ride slowly turned from vast open fields to being surrounded by huge trees. The landscape in the trees looked like something out of the Twilight series (big dark pine trees). That road was also cyclers galore. We were constantly seeeing cyclers fly by, a few even spoke with us asking about
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Weekly reflection 3 The final week! At the beginning of the week, I felt a bit tired and stressed from dealing with our second unfortunately accident that through another twist our way. We were tested many times throughout the weekend which caused a tad bit of insecurity. Once we got everything straightened out, we once again were determined to finish the last week strong. Once we got back on route, we grinded. The problems from our past two weeks only gave us more experience in the long run. Everyday, we were efficient and consistent in our cycling and our lifestyle. We were great at setting up and packing the tent, searching for last minute cheap hostels, and communicating with locals when we needed a helping hand. There were times where we reached our destination and went above and beyond to set ourselves up for the next day or fit into our local area. We were honestly pros. We knew what we were doing and it showed. Times where I would imagine myself being stressed where dealt w
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Blog 17 Our day started out with a hunt. We needed to find proper packaging for our bikes so we could fly with them. Augie and I hustled down the main strip of stores searching for bike shops to ask for boxes. There were plenty of people riding by us on rental bikes so we knew we were in the right area. About 15 minutes down the road, we found a very nice bike shop. They had it all! I asked if they had boxes we could use and the lady told me they sold bodes specifically for that! We bought to and ran back to our hostel where my bike was. Now I had to take apart the whole bike and for it into the box. With the help of other people in the hostel, we took it apart and everything fit properly. Next order of business was Augie’s bike. Augie ran off to the storage unti to pick up his bike and start to take it apart. Augie’s pedals were on super tight so we could not get them off. We did still manage to shove it in the box though with the pedals on. We than were off to the airport with tw
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Blog 16 Augie and I finished our cycling today! We woke up and only needed to bike for about thirty minutes until we got to the area the airport is in. We took the extra time in the to buy Augie a computer charger, get some lotions for our burns, return Augie’s bike and pick up some trash. It was a really windy day but we managed to pick up a bag of trash each on the road by the shopping center. We are sad that this project is wrapping up. Many memories were made. Our last order of business is finding packaging to put our bikes in when we fly. It may be an adventure to do so tomorrow but we are currently doing research to find the appropriate way to fly with our bikes. Tomorrow is a day that could be stressful. Fingers crossed it all goes smoothly!
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Blog 15 Today we woke up in Porto Colom. Our plan was to finish up our biking and end up in Palma where we would have Augie’s bike returned and collect his original one from the storage unit. We were looking at about three and a half hours of biking for the day. When I got out of bed, I decided it was time to do my laundry properly. Ringing our my clothes in the shower had lasted me the entire project but I thought I should give my clothes a proper clean before I headed back home. I asked around and was directed to a local laundromat. In there, I put my clothes in and began to hang out with the other couple waiting for their clothes. At first we waited in silence but the lady soon opened up and commented on how clumsy I was for dropping all my clothes. I took it light heartedly and agreed. Soon after I left to use a bathroom at a nearby restaurant and when I returned it was just the man. He was looking through a magazine of cars for sale. I picked one up and looked through as wel
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Blog 14 We woke up today in our quaint little campsite. We did well to get everything packed and leave before the sun was too hot in the sky. We knew we would be facing a hard morning because of all the down hills we had on not so great road conditions. Augie estimated it would take us three hours to get out of the park. I guessed two hours and fifty nine minutes. Most of the road was not disable uphill. The bike could not handle the amount of bumps and it was far too steep. There were parts that were so steep that we could barely push our bikes up the hill. The gravel kept slipping under our feet and the heavy bikes struggled to stay upright. Although it was difficult, we did manage to get out of the park and we did so way faster than expected. It only took us about an hour. Once we got our tech charged up in the nearest town, we got our directions and headed for the southeast corner of the island. The biking was smooth and easy. We ran into zero problems on the path. Although, once
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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.