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School is out
Just rode through a village when the school kids had a break. I stopped at the road side and they all came running down the hill. No way to stop them.
So it was time for a counting lesson:
satu, dua, tiga …
I made their day and they made mine
Tweet ##transoceaniaMessage in a Bottle
2nd generation message system. If you ever get lost in the digital age. You still can bottle your text nessages and drop it into the sea the traditional way.
Riding the Van
Finally I am on the van. Good feeling to ride in comfort with A/C and filtered air.
No worries, we are all fine and in good mood. Just using the shuttle to breakfast which is a few km away from camp and back from where we came yesterday. 123 km today, Hotel at the beach, all comfort, tidal pool … yeah, back to civilization!
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Sometimes it is worth to deviate from the given route and explore the neighborhood. Chelsea and Nellie were ‘sweeping’ me, when I asked them to follow me followed me on a detour along the beach. First we had to cross a kind of fragile suspension bridge 
before we got to the beach, where fishermen pulled in their heavy net. Unfortunately the heavy load was more jellyfish than others, but even the smallest fish was collected from the glibber mass. I asked the women on the beach, if there is another way to get back to the main road further south so we can cycle a bit on the beach. They seemed to understand my 
drawing in the sand and confirmed. We cycled quite a distance along the beach. The women followed us on their scooter. Finally they turned left into a village and to our surprise invited us to their home. Chelsea enjoyed the little one and the little one Chelsea’s sun glasses, until she started to cry, being scared by my camera? We soon had to leave for the final kilometers to the designated camp site.
Whereas Nellie was not aware of her nice
‘sandy’ henna tattoo that she developed during the ride on the beach.
2014-08-29
Stage 10: Sumatra
| Mukomuko to Seblat | |||||
| Date: | 29-08-2014 | Time: | 06:27 h | Σ Time: | 59:21 h |
| Distance: | 142 km | Σ km: | 1246 km | Temp: | 20/38 °C |
| Up: | 1469 m | Σ Up: | 12434 m | Calories: | 2855 kcal |
| Down: | 1408 m | Σ Down: | 12380 m | Σ kcal: | 28063 kcal |
| Conditions: | A cool and flat start in the morning. First 20 km along the coast, the 100 km inland through palm oil plantations. Rolling up and down +/- 70m all day, accumulating to 1400m ascent. Road good, some open patches. Many bridges over brown rivers. Until 11 am the temperature was bearable. Thereafter very hot. Steep climb with 13% grade at 136 km. | ||||
Today was faster, as I was on a different mission: Don’t stop too often, get more time in camp to write up some stuff from past days. It perfectly fitted the change in the mentality of the locals. Although there is almost no meter of unoccupied land along the whole road through the plantations – you can’t make out borders between villages – there were much fewer ‘Hello Mister’ and ‘Good Morning’ calls during most of the day. This made riding quicker. Only closer to the coast the friendliness popped up again and extra time was added for stops and interaction with locals. Another basic hotel, with cartoon beddings and bucket showers.
Stage 10: Sumatra
| Mukomuko to Seblat | ||||||
| Date: | 29-08-2014 | Time: | 06:27 h | Σ Time: | 59:21 h | |
| Distance: | 142 km | Σ km: | 1246 km | Temp: | 20/38 °C | |
| Up: | 1469 m | Σ Up: | 12434 m | Calories: | 2855 kcal | |
| Down: | 1408 m | Σ Down: | 12380 m | Σ kcal: | 28063 kcal | |
| Conditions: | A cool and flat start in the morning. First 20 km along the coast, the 100 km inland through palm oil plantations. Rolling up and down +/- 70m all day, accumulating to 1400m ascent. Road good, some open patches. Many bridges over brown rivers. Until 11 am the temperature was bearable. Thereafter very hot. Steep climb with 13% grade at 136 km. | |||||
Today was faster, as I was on a different mission: Don’t stop too often, get more time in camp to write up some stuff from past days. It perfectly fitted the change in the mentality of the locals. Although there is almost no meter of unoccupied land along the whole road through the plantations – you can’t make out borders between villages – there were much fewer ‘Hello Mister’ and ‘Good Morning’ calls during most of the day. This made riding quicker. Only closer to the coast the friendliness popped up again and extra time was added for stops and interaction with locals. Another basic hotel, with cartoon beddings and bucket showers.
‘Bunny’ Night
No Mickey this time, but also no Superman. UPS must have delivered the wrong parcel, Katrin.
Tonight is ‘Bunny Night’
Luckily so far there are no Soccer Team motives yet. I don’t know what I would do if I was assigned an Bayern Munich bed.
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I completed another metric century. 100 km done in the brutal midday heat. 42 km to go – piece of cake?
