day 7...or 8? this blog is not dead yet

Yesterday was the first real day of riding in my trip (excluding day one's misadventures). It included one 300m climb. I was a bit nervous as I did not do any training for this trip and my bike plus gear is pushing 100lbs.

In total I logged around 40 miles from Kranj to Celje. For most touring folks this is a fairly conservative number. I want to keep my climbing days light though as I get my legs acclimated. 

The downhill after the climb was absolutely exhilarating. 

I passed three different places that Becky and I visited last year on my ride yesterday. All by coincidence and I had no idea untill I passed them. its really not a big country!

At lunch time I just happened to look up and see the best restaurant we ate at last year...and I had no idea I was even in that same town. It's a Mediterranean place owned by a Palestinian chef. At that very moment a local cyclist was leading me to another lunch spot but I had to beg off and return to Tsnim arabska restavracija. Check out the pics of the food on their Google listing below.

Tsnim arabska restavracija

I was excited to stay with my first warmshowers hosts last night. They are an amazing couple. She is Slovenian and he is Argentinian. They met when he was bicycle touring through Montenegro and she was vacationing at the coast. Now they have two cute kids and live in this cute town. It's a really wonderful international love story but you really  need to hear them tell it. The first pic in this post is  their front door.

I have decided at minimum to try to post a picture of where I stayed each night. Maybe some description of the ride.

I love this country.

Also, some of you noticed I deleted my day two/three blog post. It was all festival stuff and I decided no one needs to hear about any of that.

Off to Maribor then Vienna. Probably.