Before leaving

yesterday the last time in the garden.
Strange situation in hot July as I prepare things for winter (emtying water cans and barrels)
Eating up every food that even I would not eat ina year.
What to do with underware and other cloths I use until departure?
I will for sure wake u early, so I can start the washing maschine. Somebody has to store cloths when they are dry. And regarding underware I saved some that I would have thrown away earlier. It will do its job for a last time until tomorrow πŸ™‚
I put a lot of stuff in ~20 Bananaboxes, they are in the cellar, without leaving emptiness in my home.
I think I put away the equivalent of 5 boxes in that process, but I got to weak for another 5, that could have been sorted out….

Frustration…
I bought a pump for the trip, some months ago. When I measure the pressure with the standing pump, then used this pump20-30 times, it was LESS pressure!?!
So I bought a new, even more expensive, also awardwinning pump. It is impossible to get more than 3 bar inside. What is wrong?

All of a sudden I noticed that I had not connected my Garmin GPS with the Computer
I want to take with me. And of course, it did not work. Hours of precious time are lost.
And I found out how hard it is the use all that electronic stuff, including a solar panel that sometimes doesnt charge but empty batteries!
I decided to take it with me and see what it does. And it will have only 2 chances to fail, before we will have to part from each other.

Joy:
I was invited to send in my rain poncho for a better cap screen. And it came back on time, they had been very helpful!

My sons, supporting me…

Best wishes from friends

mixed feelings:
most of the time only excited or nervous, I sometimes feel real panic, ask my self if it is necessary do be crazy like that, and if I will be able to cope with all things to come. And I dont mean extra things like ba accidents, robbery or so.
Not even more likely things like a bank machine swallowing my card and no one speaking English or a broken chain.
I just think about daily decisions and daily claims and requirements.

challenge:
enjoying, getting into ballance, being present

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papermap travel

(not only) as a backup for electronic devices that are very helpful – as long as they work! – and can leave you in the lurch all of a sudden, REAL maps are useful

https://youtu.be/p_Q4szWxoV4

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Part 1 to Bulgaria, Part 2 to Bandar Lengeh

Part 1 from home via Manu to Burgas (meeting Athanas)

1 446 km 8 850 m

Part 2 to Bandar Lengeh, visiting Tinatini, Mariam&Nadia, Hasmik and friends and then going together for a week with Nader in Iran

3 343 km 31 920 m that means: 2,3x longer, but 3,6x more height meters,

https://www.komoot.de/tour/27385189

 

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Schedule

https://www.findmespot.com/spotadventures/index.php/view_adventure?tripid=355817

I plan to get the rout on “spotadventures”, hope it works well!
I am curious how it will be on the cargo ship section when the spot GPS signals will be the only way of “communicating” where I am πŸ™‚

but here is the plan:

21.7.2018 leaving Vienna to famous Kaisersdorf in famous Burgenland.
then Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, there meeting a friend!
ferry to Georgia, going on to Armenia and Iran, again meeting friends, in Iran even cycling with a friend for a week
Ferry to Dubai, departure to Malaysia by cargo ship.
Cycling from Malaysia to Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China and Taiwan, again visiting friends in many places!

not sure how to reach Sydney then
the route by cargo ship could be available again in Autumn. If not I will have to take a flight :(((

In Australia visiting my brother and doing a trip somewhere

Cargo ship to Singapore, some weeks left to go to Indonesia in a combination of ferry, trains and bike
and finally with another freighter from Singapore to Dunkerque (France) and cycling home in August 2019

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changes….

the biggest change was back from Tandem to my normal bike and changing form E-bike to non-electric.
So it will be a more honest bike trip πŸ˜‰

So the title also changed from “PcBcP”
(people connecting brothers connecting people – as those going with me would have helped me to go to my brother and visiting my brother would have connetcted me with people cycling with me)
to “planalto cycles” with planalto meaning the same like EbenhΓΆh.

Another change:
from the earliest plannings until last week I was looking forward to visit CS-friends in Moldavia, but on one hand it was not sure if they would be at home and on the other hand there is a friend, Athanas, stuck in Bulgaria and together we found a way how to meet and how my trip can go on from Burgas, Bulgaria.

Maybe changing “now”
on my way back I wanted to o by cargoship from Singapore to Piraeus and cycle home. But now a family meeting had been cancelled in I have some additional weeks left. So I will leave Singapore a month later and the freighter doesnt go to Piraeus. I had to choose between ports in Spain, France, and Germany. It will be France, Dunkerque, ~1400km from home.
So I will have more time left to visit friends in Indonesia.

Unpleasant change finally:
the freighter from Taiwan to Sydney had been cancelled, and the alternative options also became more and more complicated and eating up my precious Taiwan time.
So tomorrow i will look for a flight πŸ™
and latest next week I will book it if no miracle happens…

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First time testing the Bambuk trike in BΓΌhl/Germany (August 2016)

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PcBcP

In July 2018 I want to start a trip to visit my brother Markus in Sydney.
I will use a Tandem bike and the other seat is free for people who join me for some hours or days. So they connect me to my brother (PcB)
But as my brother living in Sydney inspired me to do this trip he indirectly connects me to those who join me.
So:
Peope connecting brothers connecting people!

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