Day 134 Aug 21 Tue - River Camp 58km to Tuapse - Hillslope Workshop Camp in Tuapse

Auto workshop camp at the hill slope


Armenian coffee taste bitter to me
The owner is a policeman in the next morning going for duty in Tuapse

Country road ,take me home , to the place I belong......
The colorful houses stands out better surrounded by the green
Threads and needle work on my torn seat cover due to too many falls
My 1.5 litre bottle cage joint also gave way after the 6 km of gravel.Temporary tied with cable ties.
Two iron clips now holding the bar to support the side panniers

6 km ( 3 km up & 3 km down ) of gravel portion under heavy trafic
Cafe restaurant at the top b4 the 3 km of gravel down Sochi preparing for winter olimpic in 2014
Youngsters from Moscow who invited us for food & drinks at the Cafe

Badly welded and torn portion of the bike stand bracket
I left this problematic bike stand in the river side for good
Heather looking good in her ever trusted MTB
A railway tunnel under construction

Today's Distance: 58 km
Today's Temp: 26 - 35c
Average Speed: 13.1 max: 52
Time on Bike: 4 hr 24 min
Average climb: 3% max: 13%
Trip Altitude: 549 m max: 553m
Today's spending: 105 rur
Total Distance to date: 8906 km
Total spending to date: 4652 rur

Starting from today has to cope with "NO MORE BIKE STAND". I had finally given up hope on this problematic bike stand,the welded bracket broke again this morning even after 2 nd time welding.Had transfered 2 round iron clips originally for my MSR bottle cage to hold my 2 side panniers.This causes a delay start at 11 am. The scenerirs continued to be greeneries and hilly with rolling ups & downs,beautiful country road mostly villages except for a gravel strectch of 3 km up & follow by 3 km down , dusty with heavy traffic.There was a nice cafe restaurant at the top , we met four youngsters from Moscow travelling by car to Tuapse , we were invited again to join them for food and drinks. At 6 pm , we rode up a 10 meter high hill slope gravel path in search for campsite, but was surprised to see a auto workshop there,fortunately the owner was happy to allow us to camp for a nite. Later his daugther I guess served us a special Armenian cofee in a little tiny cups & biscults. Heather was very excited about having a real hot shower while I am happy to have cool bath outside with a running hose.