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EPISODE #005
I woke up in a small town about 5 km north of Dej, Romania and planned to cycle a reasonable 65 kilometers to the nearby city of Bistrita. But I managed to cover the first 65 km rather quickly, so I was faced with a decision. Call it a day… or continue cycling about 50 km up the road… in the rain… and hope that I could reach the city of Reghin, Romania before night fell. Watch and see what happened!
This video was shot on March 28, 2015 during my bike tour from Poland to Romania via Ukraine.
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This is the part I hate about bike touring the most packing up my stuff every morning I’m really slow at it too so we’re in Romania this is the view outside that’s the direction I’m going and it’s kind of overcast and raining on and off and the weather report says it’s
Going to rain for the next week just not good not good at all CU I have one more week to get to where I’m going brev I’m behind the hotel right now and pack CLE up my bike I forgot to charge my um USB mounted rear light cuz it’s dead and I
Probably need it cuz I’m going to be cycling in the rain so what I’m going to do is grab my solar panel here this is one of the reasons I upgraded to this new USB mounted light is I’m going to plug the USB cable into the battery on my solar charger
All right then I’ll plug the other end into the light right and now I just press this button here and as you can see the light on the US there it is the little orange light there on the on the light shows that it’s charging so I’ll just leave that in here
For the first couple hours today and that’ll probably charge up pretty quickly boom so this this is the town that I’m going to today Beast strea it’s 59 km is all uh should be a good day and the sun is out right now look at that hey something kind of interesting about
Romania is a lot of these houses have these things in them which is a well a water well so you can pull up your own water so you see there’s one right there this house has one right there there’s another one right there you see it right there and over there
I’m at a Crossroads a literal Crossroad right now um I can go this way which is 50 km more to the next town or I can go this way which is only like 5 km and find a a hotel for the night I want to keep
Going but it’s the rain mainly that I’m worried about cuz it could just start dumping here at any minute what should I do okay I decided we’re going to go the 50 k extra hot going up a big hill right now almost at the top I hope hey guys how are
You check out this hill I’m going up I’m already about halfway up but think goes lots of little switchbacks the weather is good though look at it it’s not raining right now well I ended up doing it 100 15 km today in the rain it was actually easier
Than yesterday when I only did 90 km in fair weather uh I don’t know why but uh I’m pulling out of town now here’s my room for tonight cost 90 l it’s kind of like right in the center of town which is good the bathroom that’s
It oh man it feels good to be indoors like I’m so wet and uh she says it’s going to be half an hour before the hot water turns on just got a pizza at a nearby bar let’s see what we got here huh looks a little pale that’ll do sauce Asal