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In short: I didn’t feel well after my couple of first days bikepacking and thought about going home.
The positive comments here as well as the support from family and girlfriend helped me to continue.
And I want to thank all of you who left kind words for me.
I decided to not feel the pressure and hop on the bike whenever I feel like it.
I had a day with just 30 kilometres, but I also had one with 106 kilometres.
I met nice people on the campsites and in two days my girlfriend is going to visit me for the rest of the week.
Unfortunately, biking is over for this week, because I fell down the bike a second time today.
Yeah, first one was like more than a week ago where I was too fast on a forest trail, but nothing serious.
Today I slipped while crossing a rail-track, the track was wet and slippery and I felt on the wounds that were just healed.
As my bike is additionally very dirty, I lost a screw in the mud and my clothes are all at least in one of the following three categories: (wet, covered in my blood or dirty) I decided to take a train now to Vilnius and use the next two days until my girlfriend arrives to wash my clothes, heal my wounds, repair the bike and cut my hair.
The issue is, that I can’t and won’t go through Kaliningrad and the way around isn’t very nice to cycle.
But on next weeks Monday I’m going to take a train back to the Lithuanian coast and continue to cycle along the Baltic coast.
I’ll probably not make the full circle, but I’m looking forward to at least continue to Tallinn/Helsinki and then do a trail in Souther Finland a Finn recommended me two days ago.
I think my biggest learning is, that I don’t have to follow the exact trail or sleep in a tent every night.
In Gdansk I enjoyed an awesome Schnitzel and that made me so happy.
As much as I’m looking forward to rest my bodies a couple days, I’m also looking forward to continue along the Baltic coast to Latvia and Estonia and but some couple hundred kilometres on the 808 I already cycled.
All the best and thank you!
by eagle_hockey
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You didn’t follow the road from pic #3, did you?