20 May 2007

There seems to be a pattern starting with some light rain in the wee early
morning hours then clearing by 8:00am. We took full advantage of the buffet breakfast at the campground, along with stocking up for later in the day since most places close early or are not open on Sunday. By the time we got rolling the sun was out. Our route passed through many small villages with fantastic views of the country side. We could see the hills of Slovenia off to the left but no road to get there. So why Slovenia? Well, we met a couple from there in New Zealand and we didn't have the slightest idea of where it was until we looked it up when we got home. So for Jurnai and Laura's sake, we had to pay a visit to your country since we were so close. Besides how many of you can say you have been there. So our plan was to get to the village of Oriszentpeter and drop our gear at the campground then ride a loop through Slovenia back to camp. All well and good except that there was no campground anymore. Our conversation with the three men digging in the cemetery (none s!
poke english) netted us a name of a possible place at a woman's house (we later found out) that might provide camping. The three stooges plus 2 bewildered Americans. We stopped at the church in the village and scouted out a place to camp upon return of our now expected loaded tour through Slovenia. After filling our water bottles from the pump at the church, we flagged down a woman riding by on her bicycle. She spoke English and invited us to camp in her backyard. So we dropped our gear there and headed out. Well it looked like we would have to backtrack 6 km's to get to the road into Slovenia so John thought he scoped out a small road that would be a short cut. As it turned out the road was gravel and passd through a forested area and came out to what we thought was where we wanted to be. We met a couple more people out cycling and they showed us that John had miscalculated. We were now north of Oriszentpeter by 5 km's and would have to go back through Oriszentpeter and do!
the back tracking. A mere 12 km's of extra riding. We were also told
that the reentry point into Hungary would not be open and that we would have to come back the way we came. Oh well, we went into Slovenia 5 km's to Salovic, had some ice cream and came back out. Back at Eva Koszegi's we freshened up, had some tea with real honey from the neighbor, some cookies and chatted the night away. Eva's email has the word angel in it and that she surely is.


Kms 83.97
Time 4:55:47
Avg 17.0
Max 46.4
Odo 489.5