Morning climb or We didn`t sign up for a nature walk!

September 7th, 2012 Friday

Woop Woop so after Jan convinced me to embark on this tree top adventure (after the bottele of vodka) we woke up around 8 and started around 9. Since Katbear told us to climb everything, we did! It was the most fun, we had a blast and got to work on our upper body strength GerrRRrr! Pictures are self explanitory.   After that I had a most excellent lunch complete with potato pancakes with chicken inside. Hanako got the chicken schnitzle and we both got the most amazing garlic soup in all the Czech republic! It had fresh pieces of fried bread and cheese on top. MMMMmmmm! So with a vigourous work out to jump start are morning we were off in the early afternoon.  Little  did we kown that the great nature walk of 2012 awaited us!

Jan gets me strapped

Ya'll ready for this??!!?

My cutie gets strapped in too!

This rope net was probably the hardest part

Go, Hanako, Go!

A regular Tarzan over here

sliding tree to tree!

Here she comes! Right into my arms!!!

Getting unclipped

The whole course, starting from 15 up to 20 or so feet in the air

The best soup ever!

We started biking and remembered that we were on trails around a mountain, so it was already a bit hard to begin with. We saw some signs with a lovely flower on it marking our trail and we thought it was going to be an easy breezy beautiful covered trail for the day. But it wasn't. Crazy steep ups and downs awaited us, on dirt and gravel paths. Incline after incline we walked our bikes up the trail. We passed some small ponds along the way, but it was pretty shitty in terms of bikeability with our loaded up bikes. But then again it was pretty amazing to be surrounded by so much beautiful nature, lush trees, and sunshine peeking through. We eventually came to a clearing which gave us one of the most amazing views in the world. In my life I've seen a lot of great views, and this topped a lot of them. It was quite amazing, we were pretty high up.

Nailed it!

Boner!!! Times 5!!!!

The trail down had a sign with an exclamation point and a walk your bike sign, so naturally I hopped onto my bike and sped down it as fast as I could. Not the best trail... but an amazing downhill, almost a straight shot with a few curves. We made it to a clearing of several vineyards as well as some tourist information about the area. We stopped to take a photo and to assess the next leg of travel. Yes thats right, the worst road in Czech Republic. Large bumpy road half cobblestone half dirt. Luckily it was only half of a kilometer.

Me and my honey with some helmet hair

Worst Road. EVER.

We treked on and finally made it out of our nature walk. The rest of the way was well paved and flat.

To all my fallen Czech companions (old bunker)

We finally got into town with less than an hour of sunlight left. We camped in what seemed like some ladys yard, and the rest of the residents seemed to be part of a hunting club. We caught an amazing sky before we headed out into town to the local pizzeria... which ended up being a shitty dive bar for the local folk and young drinkers. I was super pissed cuz the sign above the bar said Pizzeria and the bar wenches shirt was in English but she didn't speak any. Some drunk dude walked us down the street to the only restaurant open, which was part of a hotel in town. He asked me for some crowns for his efforts so I gave him a few, and went to eat. Unfortunately it wasn't pizza or anything I wanted for that matter. Still hungry but exhausted we headed back to our tent and bid goodnight to our neighbors, the turkeys.

I heard you like amazing sunsets, Czech it.

Our neighbors for a night