Day 69 SOLO BIKEPACKING ADVENTURE Cycling Around the World – Spain & Andorra

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. Well, it’s been quite a morning. The roads have been really rough. Lot of big rolly rocks. So, I’ve been doing some hike a bike, little bit of riding, but I think it’s about to get better. I’m about to uh head down that road there and eventually end up in that little village there. But I just wanted to share with you how pretty it is up here. It’s really been a gorgeous ride. All right. And I think once I get down to that town, the rest of the day is pretty much straight uphill to Andor. I think I go through that opening in the mountains there, the valley, but it’ll all be a gradual uphill, mostly paved roads. So, uh, I’m just looking forward to getting to town and getting some food. I’m totally out of food, almost out of water. So, I’m going to get down there and get something to eat. [Music] So, I’m here at the uh border of Spain and Andor, and doesn’t look like there’s a place specified for bicycles. So, I’m going to go in where the cars go and hopefully uh get a stamp on my passport. Um, I’ve been told sometimes you have to come back to another office. So, so we’ll see what happens. All right. I don’t think I’ll be able to uh record talking to people. So, I um see what happens. All right. So, that wasn’t it. Apparently, I have to go on up here to the booth and I can get a stamp there. So, they say to get out of the shing zone and out of Spain. I don’t know how this goes. And I’m going to get over. There’s the sign saying that I’m entering Andor [Applause] It’s a big line going into Spain. All right. All right, cutting you off. All right, I got that stamp. So now Hopefully I can get a stamp saying that I’m going that I’m in and Pandora. I’m not really sure how this works. Oh, nice. The bike line. The bike lane. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. So And Pandora is a taxfree country. I’ll tell you more about it later. But leaving Andor, they check to make sure that you’ve not bought too much stuff. And that’s the reason the line leaving Andor is much longer. Yep. I’m going to stop. Make sure I haven’t missed something. All right. So, I came back down here to the police station at the border for Andor and there is no entrance stamp, but I did get the exit stamp leaving Spain. So, leaving the shingen. So, they say I’m good. So, two nice officers helped me out. They did give me a tourist stamp, which is just kind of like a souvenir stamp. And uh I think it’s kind of controversial whether you put those in your passport or not, but I already have one from Argentina, so I just put it on the same page. So, all right. I got a couple of miles to go now to get to my apartment that I’ve rented for a week. Yay. I’m so so tired and so ready to rest. So, uh but this place is beautiful. I’ll check in later. Let you know how it’s going. All right. I’m in and Pandora Leavellia and I got here yesterday evening. I rode about 47 and a half miles and overall it was a really pleasant day. the temperature wasn’t too high because I was getting up into the mountains and I was able to stay on a lot of secondary roads and dirt roads instead of the main road that’s coming into uh the country because there’s pretty much one road that comes in from Spain and one road that comes in from France and and that’s it. There’s only two roads that come in the country as far as I can tell at least where there are official border crossings. So, um, anyway, it was it was really pleasant and, uh, there was a lot of climbing, but I think by now my legs are starting to get used to the climbs, which is nice. Um, so like I I told you, I’m going to stay here a little over a week. The Valta Espña, which is Spain’s stage race for professional cycling, actually has two stages that are going through. And um stage six near the end will um come through Andor Lavellia actually um just like two blocks from the apartment that I’ve rented. And then the next morning, stage seven starts here. So they’ll have all of the uh introduction of the teams and the neutral zone start. And so I’m very excited about that. Um, so I I’ve followed professional cycling for a long time and so to be able to go and cheer and um experience that is is pretty exciting for me. So um yeah, other than that, I’m just resting and editing videos. I have almost caught up with all of my videos, which is which is really good because that was starting to weigh on me. So, um, so yeah. All right. Well, I will check in on the morning that I ride over the mountain because I’m going to have one day where I ride to the other side of Andura, but then I’m going to stay there for the last couple of days before going into France. And when I enter France, I should have 33 days in the Shenen zone. So, that should be plenty to get me through. uh without feeling like I can’t take a rest day or things such as that. So, I’ll tell you more about the plan once I enter France um when when we get there. All right. I’ll check in later. Bye. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] If you’re enjoying my videos, please click like and also subscribe so that you do not miss out on on any future content. Thank you.