Our last few days of biking have been quite wet. It has been raining throughout all of Latvia and a bit of Estonia. A rest day was necessary as all of our bags were soaked and our bikes needed a bit of clean up after a few rough dirt roads. We are now staying with some friends of friends that have a house in Rīga and they have been quite welcoming and it great to stay with them. We will stay here until tomorrow night and then we head out of town on Sunday. Although the biking has been quite wet, it has been incredible to ride through the Baltics and its super cool to learn more about their history. As this area was previously under the control of the soviet union, there are many ruins from communal farming and communal homes. Many of them are now uninhabited and they are interesting to look at while we ride through the countryside. We have also visited a few different castles and those have been incredible. We visited one in Cēsis that was super cool and we got to explore the spiral staircases and dungeons all by candlelight. There are quite a few photos of that on the photography boys. We have recently been taking more dirt roads as the main roads have been crazy busy and there haven't been many other paved roads. The dirt roads have clogged up our chains and bikes quite a bit so we needed to clean them up today so they chains aren't gummed up. Our route will continue down to the north-east corner of Poland and from there we will have to choose our path southward. There are many different possible options to get to Romania as we could go through Ukraine, or we could go through Slovakia and Hungary, or we could go along the border and get a bit of everything. It is amazing to have these opportunities and possibility to make choices like this. I will have to do a bit of research about Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania to make my choice a bit more educated. If you have previously travelled in any of these countries, feel free to email me and give me some information! My email is sampson.mcferrin@outlook.com and I would love to get some more information about where we might be travelling through. As for now, we will bike towards the Polish border through Lithuania. Hopefully the weather will get a bit more sunny and warm as we keep moving. Enjoy the photos!
