OCT 15, 2004

Rode from Sale to Port Welshpool on the coast. It was a long day fighting into headwinds. The route seems to be either headwinds or hills so far! Fortunately there weren't many hills and I was actually able to stay on my bicycle the whole time. That was a bit of a confidence booster for me. At one point we stopped and I laid my bicycle down at the side of the road ... and a large, light brown, furry tarantula took my handlebar bag hostage for a few minutes until we were able to encourage him to move along. I would have taken a photo, but my camera was in the handlebar bag.

We have been craving meat recently, but it is too hard to carry with us so we have to eat out of tins. When we arrived at that campsite and went into the kitchen, there were a dozen or so fishermen all cooking meat. They wanted to know all about us, and shortly after they offered us some of their meat - hamburgers, sausages, chicken ... it was great!!

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