Day 67: Downhill + tail winds
Camped last night outside someone’s house on the recommendation of a friend a day ahead.
The night sky was incredible. The best and clearest I have seen. Was in the middle of nowhere with just 3 houses within 50 kms I would say. I think it would have been as good when wild camping the last few nights but was always so tired I was in bed so early, before the sky really bloomed. But the security of camping in someone’s backyard ment I stayed up later. The milky way was like a cloud of white across the night sky but there were no clouds in the sky. I tried to capture this with the phone camera using the “master” settings but my photography abilities are too bad. I won’t embarrass myself by posting my attempts at capturing this.
When I got up the next morning, I tried to pay my host for the night. However, Eugene flat out refused to accept payment.
Yesterday was a day of head winds on highway 1. However, today the winds were in my favor and had the strongest tail winds of the trip so far. And it was mostly downhill too. There were times when I was cruising at 40km/h with almost no peddling. Going was really good.
Stopped at a coffee shop for a coke, coffee and sneakers bar break and ran into Fiona. Fiona is a swiss cyclist also cycling to Argentina that I had previously met in Calafariona. Was great to see a friendly face and catch up.
Cycled together for the rest of the day until a small town called el Rosarito where we camped outside the back of Mauricio’s Restaurant. Such places are really nice about letting you camp out the back for free under the assumption that you buy dinner there.
Was an easy 100km day averaging 22 km/h. Is funny that sometimes 100km one day feels easier than 5km another day.