9/30/17

Near the trip end

Yea their using a drag

Early start and a long ride ahead.  Main road has a little shoulder and lots of traffic.  I run across the first bike tourer I have seen since Krakow.  He is in a hurry as he is 5 kilometers from home after a 4 month trip.  The village is waiting for him to return and celebrate.  It is early afternoon before I get on a quieter road.  The scenery picks up as the roads get smaller.  One village there is a box of vegetables in front of homes to sell.  Next village has piles corn stalks that are being worked through to clean the dried ears.  There are lots of horse drawn wagons being used. GPS recommend road turns to rough dirt road then grass.  The other side of the pass I am greeted to new pavement and a smooth ride for a while.  As the sun gets lower I pick up my pace.  Pass some interesting faces on the entrance to a municipal building in a small village.  As the light is fading I ride up and in the fortified town on a hill in Sighisoara.  Only 130k for the day.

Love and kisses

Steve

9/29/17

Italians

Haunted Forest

I need sleep but the construction workers go to bed at one and are up before 6.  They like yelling at each other.  I will not be staying.  So I am off to see the town.  I am told of a salt mine to go visit.  I have gotten a lot of suggestions that I should visit the salt mines.  Then there are the haunted woods that aliens have been sighted there.  This the spacey type of aliens.  So they need a wall to keep the aliens contain.  Just because they travel long distance they would never think of using a ladder or tunnel under.  Yes a wall will solve their problems with aliens.

After touring the city and the haunted forest I head south.  Three different wrong turns did slow me a bit.  Then I am on a smaller road through the hills of Transylvania.  The last part of the ride puts me on the main road with truck zipping past.

Love and Kisses

Steve

9/28/17

I decide I am done with the flat country and bugs that go with it. I book a train to the heart of Transylvania.  The problem is I get there at 23:00. I start writing to a hostel.  Then tour the town.  After 3 hours I have no word from the hostel I wrote to.  I start writing more hostels.  I get quicker responses and have a place.  So a little food and some more touring follow by a six hour train ride.  I find the hostel easily and am put in a room with construction workers who have been drinking.  They go to sleep at one.

Love and kisses

Steve

9/18/17

Hungary??

It is Monday and caves are all closed as I find out reading the sign.  So it is time to leave the country.  I ride most of the day to reach the border.  At the border the sign does not say Hungary.  I cant have enter the wrong country again?  As darkness set in I reach Salgotarjan and head for a camp ground that is up a hill.  I find no campground there.  The sign as I go down notes the slope as 22%.  Glad I did not know that climbing up it none stop.  I go for a hotel as I have done 125k today.

Love and Kisses

Steve