Our First Accomplishment
DAY 15, KM 1039, Rothenburg, Germany
Tuesday 28 August 2007
29 °C
Our trip so far:
The joyous parts: wind between our toes, ice cream cafes, rolling hills, clean campings, fantastic, paved, super-well marked routes, friendly germans, cute medieval cities, cooking experiments on our camping stove, finding a sauna center next to our camping, 5 hours in the hot tub, raisin buns, and most importantly.....
WE HIT 1000 KM!!!!!!!!!!!
The not so joyous parts: butt pain, butt pain, and more butt pain. We have so much butt pain, that when we go to a restaurant, we don't even look at the price or the food, only the thickness of the seat cushions. Even then we try sit in a certain position that does not require putting any wieght on our postirior, which is something like half laying, and have sitting. So when you imagine two smelly, sweaty people with reallly bad tent-helmut hair, slouching aqwardly in thier seats, it is truly amazing that the germans have been so friendly to us.
After two weeks we are kind of falling into a rythm, but still need more time. Some days we do about 60km, and some days about 100km. Although this may seem quite lame to some of you top sporters out there, we are quite proud of our progress so far. Especially considering all of the butt pain.
Here is a look at our daily schedule:
- 8:00- on the road
- 8:30- gigantic breakfast
- 9:30- gigantic snack buffet
- 12:00- gigantic lunch, biergarten for Wim (he's trying to cut down)
- 14:00- ice cream break (amy's trying to cut down, wim is not)
- 16:00 or so- start thinking about a camping (wild or paying)
- 19:00- gigantic dinner
The rest of the night consists of washing clothes, dishes, ourselves, and then the long awaited sleep.
Can you find our tent?
Congratulations on the first 1000 kilometers! It's really great to finally get to see some pictures! Hopefully the butt pain will get less over time, so you can be more picky when choosing your restaurants ;-) (BTW Wim, do you look that much worse than Amy, or is it a coincidence there's no picture of you?)
Tuesday 28 August 2007 by bieke