I recently had a pretty good jam with some new friends Góral and Piotr in Karczak, Poland. It’s getting difficult to capture and write about our adventures as there are more and more everyday. As we are only getting wifi every week or so it so hard to post as much as I’d like to. But, when I do post it really makes me think about what has stood out in the past week. I guess one of the main parts is that we havn’t been travelling with mom for the past week. Unfortunetly, she got a pretty horrible saddle sore that is preventing her from being mobile without being in a bunch of pain. The saddle sore origanally was caused by our 127km day and also buy some cream she was using. Anyway, she has been spending a few days with a wonderful family in Białystok to give her body some rest and she will stay there for another two weeks. During that time, we have crossed the border into Poland, met up with her in Białystok for a night and we will meet her in Kraków in about two weeks. I think that Poland has been one of my favorite countries so far. It hasn’t rained one day and the roads have been fantastic. They came up with this new initiative which became a law a few years ago, that if you were going to do repairs on a road, that you would need to build a bike path along the side of the road. For us, it’s perfect as there is Euro Velo route all along the east side of Poland. We have met some amazing people as well. A few days ago we were biking along a dirt road when a man stopped in his car and got out to talk to us. His name was Góral, which means highlander, or mountaineer in polish. He told us that the road ahead was flooded over by at least a meter and that he could throw our bikes on top of his land rover and drive us through. It was a really fun experience and there was no way that we would have gotten through the wetlands on our bikes. There is a good picture of the drive on the photography page. He ended up taking us back to his farm where we met his friend Piotr and his wife Gosia. They were very kind people that were wonderful hosts for the evening. The night was full of translation through Gosia, great converstations and a fun jam including Piotr on an African Drum, Góral on a Didgeredoo and I was playing my travel guitar. Other than that we have had seen some gorgeous forests throughout our ride and I am enjoying Poland quite a lot. We have been seen lots of different animals including adorable kittens, barking dogs, cows, horses, sheep, chicken, roosters and rams. We are planning to make it to Kraków in two weeks and I am super excited to bike through the rest of Poland.
