Neuburg, Germany to Dillingen, Germany
It was raining lightly as we awoke. We dawdled a little and as we were packing up the sun came out and the sky cleared. Leaving Neuberg we got onto a dirt track that followed the river and thought that was where we were supposed to be but weren't sure. We knew we had to cross the river. There was another dirt track that branched off toward the river, so we checked it out. It was a sort of dam which we could cross on. We looked upriver and didn't see anywhere else to cross, so we went over with the hope of picking up the bikeway on the other side. Well, there were no bikeway signs and we had given up, heading back to town to take the road that we had taken in yesterday. Then, low and behold, there was the bikeway. We just don't understand the way they have this thing signed!
At noon we were in Donauworth, a sizable town where we wanted to check our email for information from our warm showers hosts a few days down the road. There was a huge car show going on there with new cars and their adjoining salespeople lining the main streets of town. We asked a waitress about an internet cafe and she directed us, but it was closed on Sundays like everything else in Germany. So we tried to continue on and couldn't make sense of the bikeway signs again. They didn't seem to jive with what our map showed. We asked some biker dudes sitting down for a coffee and they told us which way to go in a bit of a cocky fashion. John was convinced they were wrong since we had just come back from going the way they said to go. So we went the way John thought was correct and almost immediately found the bikeway. I guess you can't always trust the locals for directions.
The weather turned out to be just beautiful today, quite warm forcing us to stop for ice cream in the late afternoon at a gas station which was a pretty happening place since it was the only thing open in town. We arrived in Dillingen and found the campground easily due to excellent signage. There was a couple there already set up from Stuttgart riding some of the Danube. We talked briefly, did our chores and then walked into town for dinner. On the way we did some routefinding work for tomorrow. We followed the bikeway signs through the old town area, found the tourist info office and looked around a bit. We tried calling our warm showers host in Biberach but weren't able to figure out how to dial his cell phone number. We enjoyed a calzone and some big ice cream cones before returning to camp and chatting with the other cyclists. They were very friendly and extremely helpful. We were asking them about camping for tomorrow night since we were heading toward the are!
a they came through today. They weren't sure about camping in Ulm, which we were particularly interested in, so the woman got a campground directory from the campground host and looked it up for us. We also asked about dialing the cell phone number that we had tried and before we knew it, the man had his cell phone out and dialed the number for us. This saved us a ton of trouble. The woman also found out where a supermarket was in town for tomorrow morning. It was like they were just there to serve us. What nice folks!
Kms 71.83
Time 4:56:32
Avg 14.5
Max 52.6
Total 2023.8
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