Day 115 SOLO BIKEPACKING ADVENTURE Cycling Around the World – Montenegro

Hello, my name is Susan and I’m a 62 year old woman that retired and I sold my house and I’m traveling the world on my bicycle. I hope you will join me for my adventure. Thank you. Good morning. I’m in Colass and uh getting ready to to ride There’s a newscast going on here, but I just thought I’d show you the downtown area. This is a small mountain town. I think that um they are busy in the winter because of the uh ski resorts that are nearby. And the first part of my ride today will be riding up to a ski resort. Um, but yeah, I wonder what the news story is. I’m riding behind them, so I’m going to end up being on the TV. So, I um had a very nice stay in the apartment last night and uh thank you. The guy that rented the apartment was so nice and so was the lady that worked for him. So, I’m really uh overall experiencing a lot of people being very nice here. Um, so yeah, that’s uh that works. Um, so yeah, hopefully hopefully I make it to the border today. I think I’ve got like three pretty sizable climbs that I need to do. So, uh, I will, uh, check in later. hopefully show you some pretty pictures from the uh top of the mountain. Oh, maybe I’ll hold on just a little bit longer here. Looks like a little bit more town. Not sure who that is, but I did find out today that the um Montenegron Independence Day is the same as my birthday. Um, yeah. All right. I’m going to turn you off so that I can follow my navigation since I tend to get lost when I’m not paying attention. Um, all right. I’ll check in later. Not sure what’s going to happen up here. There’s a tunnel. It’s pretty It’s 4 and a half kilometers long. I’m hoping there’s a bike lane that it’s more modern than the road to get here, but we will see. If not, I may have to come back and try to hitchhike through. I stopped and tried to ask a man, but I don’t think he understood me. All right, there it is. It does look like there may be a way to walk through it. And honestly, traffic’s been horrible today. Two-way traffic with big trucks on what amounts to single lane roads. It’s been crazy. So, I have ended up walking or riding on the side of the road most of the day. All right. There is nothing saying I can’t do it. And I’m going to walk. There’s no way I’m going to ride through this tunnel with this traffic. All right, I will uh check in later. It’s been a crazy day. All right, I decided to ride until I see a car coming and then pull over. It’s a beautiful tunnel. So far, nothing. We’ll see. There’s the escape if I needed one. says they’re supposed to be going 40 kilometers an hour in here, which is pretty slow. We’ll see. Cars I’ve been seeing have been flying. I am looking forward to being out of Montenegro. Oh, here comes the car. So, I’m up on the curb. It’s good. It’s easy easy to hear them coming. So, I think I’ll try that again. Um anyway, Montenegro has been beautiful and the people are lovely. Everyone is so nice and uh yeah, but these roads since yesterday afternoon have just been crazy. And uh I think there’s another car coming. Here we go. All right. I’m going to turn you off and get out of this tunnel. All right. Woo! All right. It was a tough day. I I made it like 41 miles, a little bit more. and um just a lot of traffic. I am looking forward to getting on some back roads soon. There’s just no option because I need to go across the border at the border patrol. So, if I were on back roads, I would be entering Kosovo illegally. The border is about 10 miles that way. So, tomorrow morning I’ll be one big climb up and then down just a little bit to the border. And then I think the terrain’s going to get much easier after that. Kosovo. First I’ll be going down to get out of the mountains and then it looks pretty flat. Um, so tonight I’m staying at the JLA Nature Resort and I got a room right here. Let’s see. Registration and restaurant and some hotel rooms are there. So, but this is this is my room and it has a couple of beds, little table. I’ve got Wi-Fi, um, bathroom with shower. So, uh, so yeah, not bad for €24. All right, I’m going to get cleaned up and go check out the restaurant and I will check in with you tomorrow. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. If you’re enjoying my videos, please click like and also subscribe so that you do not miss out on any future content. that. Thank you.