Yesterday’s hardcore chill-out has left it’s marks - this morning Kaspars was complaining about a muscle ache in his leg. But other than that everybody was feeling great mainly because of the bright sunlight dancing on the white sheets of
This morning started with encouraging news. According to the weather forecast the temperature outside was -18 degrees with a wind chill of -32. We got goosebumps just thinking about the freezing day to come. Karlis B. was especially indignant and
There is time for rest and time for doing, and this morning our rest time was over. The bike of Karlis B. tried to disagree by puffing out air in the hotel lobby, but we bribed it with a new
This was a rest day, so no pedaling. Both the guys and their bikes got cleaned up and gathered strength for the second part of our epic trip. After almost 1400 kilometers the joints are bound to get a bit
This morning the cyclists strapped their bikes on the roof of our van and we headed in the direction of Latvia. “Ok, at last they had enough of this madness,” you might think, but you would be wrong. The reason
Because of the time difference between Poland and Ukraine this morning we can afford to sleep half an hour longer than yesterday. Under normal circumstances these extra 30 minutes would seem irrelevant, but after 11 hours bike ride every minute
Yesterday evening we had a late meeting and decided that we should make a better use of the limited daylight by starting the ride earlier. Nobody was particularly excited about the prospects of getting up even earlier and being grumpy
To avoid cycling after sunset we started early this morning - at 6 o’clock the camp was up and preparing for the ride. However, despite the early wake up call, we hit the road only after 8 o’clock, because somehow
The hotel receptionist was a bit shocked to hear about our project and noted that this is a totally crazy and unrealizable idea. We could agree with the first allegation, but the latter is definitely unreasoned, because you can realize
A dose of reality: -19 degrees Celsius and approx. 220km to the hotel we are planning to rest our bones at. Of course there’s the possibility to finish some miles before the hotel and drive there with our van (and,