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20.May
MAY 20. SURPRISE ON GEORGIAN BORDER
19 May
- 2014 -
Author
Andis Pikāns
The weather keeps pampering us. Today, everyone has woken up earlier. Usually, this happens around 7 am, then we have a breakfast together, then checkups for the motorcycles, then packing and attaching the panniers. All of this usually takes us around 3 hours, so we rarely leave camp earlier than 10 am.
Today, we were on the road at 9 am. In the morning, the night air is still lingering and it’s possible to feel the refreshing breeze, which carries the smell of fresh crops. After Rostov, we turn to Stavropol and say our goodbyes to the highway, which had started to bore us. Here, fields of crops surround us.
The blue painted roadside villages appear very tidy, much more so than the ones from the border to Moscow. The people are very kind and responsive, but we keep being confused with Lithuanians. It’s hard to find a campsite here, because every single square meter is used for growing crops. Around 6 pm, we find a pond which serves as a commercial fishing spot and quickly arrange making a camp here, thanks to the kind owner Alexey. Around 10 pm, a dark cloud appears from the south and we start to prepare for a storm, but it passes by us. 470 km covered today.
