9/5/2017

Killer track

I went down hard crossing some rail tracks.  My right side will be bruised.  I was dropped by small rails that went at a diagonal.  Not even full size rails!  The ride was a forest route with a good bit on dirt.  Lots of people are out in the woods with buckets collecting mushrooms.  I check sunset time and see it is 7:15.  That time change entering Poland is changing my internal clock again.  Wild camp at sunset.  I will need to start at sunrise 5:40.

Love and Kisses

Steve

9/4/17

Time to cross the border.  I slip out of the trees and ride the border road for the crossing.  Another empty crossing so I ride into Poland.  There are signs showing the forest is off limits so I am glad I camped on the Lithuanian side.  Little ride 20k and I come to a town with a bank and so I have the local currency.  I ride on to a monastery out on a finger into a large lake.  It is big but not that interesting.  In Suwalki I go for a hostel to try to dry off.

Love and kisses

Steve

9/3/17

A rest day.  As I am hidden deep in woods along the Lithuanian/Polish border I stay in the quiet place as the rain comes down. I write and I sleep.  It is a good day.

Love and kisses

Steve

9/2/17

They like there towers to watch with.

I back to Druskininkai on the nice paved forest path.  I resupply as I don’t have Polish currency.  I head for the border.  Rain is off and on through the day.  The carved wood statues are once again along my ride.  When I get there I decide to camp as I have not seen any homes for a couple of kilometers and the forest is thick and easy to get lost in. I take the nice border dirt road a little ways and then head into the dark forest.  Something big dug a big tunnel under some trees.  I avoid camping next to that.  Maybe some of the wolfs will come visiting.  

Love and kisses

Steve

9/1/17

Cloudy sky has me slow my start.  I ride to  Druskininkai through forest.  I stop at one church.  Rain starts at I reach town.  I pick up a new USB extension cable as the old one is failing.  Newest earbuds wiring is failing so I replace them also.  Hide from the rain in the library.  I head out in the evening to a sculpture park that is a collection of soviet images.  Strolling past the guard tower and barbed wire I decide I dome need to pay for the privilege to stand next to a giant Lenin statue.  Free camping is near by a lake

Love and kisses

Steve