wow the ferry over bug river closed down due to the Ukraine war stuff.
so take inland route as few bikers said route along Belarus boarder area police not so friendly, camping spot may be an issue.
not been Lublin Poland so go around that way 😂😂
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Some of the little markings in some of these towns left over from the war stuff. Lots of reminders. Have lunch here. Okay. The thing about some of these back roads is not so much that they’re bad. Yeah. after a rain or two, the conditions would be this. Sometimes they’re torn up and the tractors, the other things, the trucks hauling wood or whatever, and other times they’re really good. One of the things in Poland is a lot of times you got to get on these farm track roads to go kind of in between getting to some main routes. It’s just the way it goes. They’re mostly ridable. Sometimes a little bit more sand than you like, but overall they are very ridable. Still, like I say, lots of different churches, Orthodox, and others here in Poland. Sometimes a road it picks, it’s a road. All right. It’s a cobblestone road. I don’t think I’ll take it. I think I’ll go the long way around. Okay, that’s my picture of life on a bike. Okay, there’s the bicycle all gone up. And this one, that one. There’s my camping chair. My pressure cooker is cooking away. It’s almost done with dinner. My dinner stuff is all in here. Hammock is set up. Tarp is ready to go if it needs to rain. Everything will go back, most of it will go back in here real quickly before I go eat. And the sun has already gone down and it’s good to go camping. Okay, after a nice night camping and everything else, uh we’re now back on the road. Uh this part of the road is a little bit different because we’re less bike trails. There are bike paths when you go through some of the cities, but it’s through farm country and farm houses. So, basically, how do we say? Not the best for biking, but not bad at all. As you can see by this, they want you to ride on the sidewalk sometimes, sometimes not. So difficult to tell which is when, yes, when is no. Some bicyclists just go straight to the road and call it good. So long as it doesn’t have that little sign that says you’re not permitted on the road. But this is my checkpoint. If I were to go to Warsaw, I would have to turn inland more here and then go to Warsaw and then go down. But I just don’t see the point of Warsaw. I’ve been there many times. It’s a beautiful city, but it’s a rebuilt city, so not much interest to me. [Music] what’s left of some of the old squares. It’s not much in some cities, but usually as normal, there’s the church. In Poland, you have to be careful about the ads because some things like this that’s 99 cents a 100 grams, not a packet. I like it when I pass through forest more like this style. They’re better for camping and much nicer to hunt. Sometimes some cities have these little camping areas or picnic areas. They’re usually across the street from a fire station or a police station. So, you got to sometimes ask to use them, but a lot of times there’s nobody there to ask, so you just go use them. So, always nice when you do get these bike lanes. They aren’t everywhere, but there’s a lot more of them than there used to be, especially on some of these highways. So, it’s turning out to be Poland is getting to be a really, really nice place to ride. This is just a reminder. This is how it goes every day, day after day. We ride the bike. We find a place to camp. Hopefully, a nice one like this. We set up. We cook our dinner. We sort out our stuff. We watch a movie. We relax. We get ready for bed. We head to sleep. after dinner and then tomorrow we do it again and we’ll get to another spot in the world when I get asked what are the worst roads that I’ve ever been on and I’m going to answer it two ways. One, sand roads because you never know how deep the sand is, how soft the sand is, so your tires are going to stick in and stop and everything else. Next one is pee gravel. chews up your tires. Same principle. You don’t know when you’re punch into it. You don’t know when you go to that. Mountains, they’re just there. You climb over them. No big deal. But these peed mountain roads and stuff, as you see here, you just don’t know when you’re going to get stuck, when you’re going to be pushing, when you can ride, when you’re going to slip and fall, all those good things. Slow down. like I just did there because I’m digging in deep. Sometimes you really got to question bike paths and bike routes. Welcome to the town of Leon here. I’ll be going through the castle area. Do some C60 videos. There’s a water fountain. First one I’ve seen in a long time. Their theme is a goat. Okay. The king of goats. Ramy. Ramy. [Music] Drinking and food prices in town are outrageous. Almost as bad as the USA. $10 hamburgers, $10 chicken burgers. Ouch. Okay. Over there is a Leen Fortress/Castle. Nothing much inside it as far as it goes. Uh but around the city it’s kind of nice. It’s old town city. The old places stuff. It’s a cute nice city. Not huge amount of stuff here. It does have its little perks. It’s up and down hills a little bit. Some nice places to sit and rest. Like I say, the city itself is typical old town. This one is in moderate condition, but overall, like I say, it’s a cute one. And this one seems to be the theme here is the ram. And this is a king ram. So around the few places you find these guys. I’m going to take a little bit of a walk around and do that. All right, we’ll leave the bike parked over there for a little bit. We did a little bit of 360 ride. I’m just going to walk around a little bit, take some pictures of the cobblestone streets. It goes down here. It says it’s a dead end, but it’s not really. It just goes down to some different stuff. Like I say, typical uh what they call stereo here. Old town. Very nice. Cute buildings, cute stuff. Very well. Don’t need to have it restored. Just the upper part. Past the old city is the new old city. [Music] It’s an interesting ride through here. Had the 360 on past all the little fountains. Everything else reminds me a lot of Levy in Ukraine. Some of the same of the other stuff. These whole areas were once part of the empire. So that’s that. Go down and call it a day. Thanks for watching. And please subscribe. [Music]