Amazing bike routes everywhere you turn. People on bicycles everywhere you turn. Incredible sights, sounds, and textures everywhere you turn; and for some fifteen kilometers, turn is pretty much all we could do for we have never felt as lost as we have in Vienna. Riding in the city on a loaded touring bike is one thing, and not so bad. Riding on a loaded touring bike in a city with a street system laid out like a broken bicycle wheel is another. At the beginning of our planning we had said to each other “let’s avoid big cities’ and for Vienna we decided to make an exception, But Vienna is very overwhelming for us at this point. We couldn’t make it to our arranged accommodations in a town just south of this massive city, so we hunted for a hostel. We will try to find Herr Franz’s home in Weiner-Nuedorf and lay low for a day or two to regroup and remix our route a bit.

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