30km

We asked for permission to camp outside the small village of Breg and woke to the coldest morning yet. Luckily it did not take long for the sun to break over the mountain range to help heat us up. The villagers that seemed so cold the evening prior also seemed to warm. We had a startling encounter with a man and his large angry dog just after dark the night before and he came back to make amends and learn more about our adventure. We offered him coffee and all was good. We rode through one more distrustful town before we began a hard climb into the mountains and our first mountain pass. The climb was up a hard gravel rode and really cleaned out our muscles.  We settled and had our first campfire only to fine that the wet tent from wet morning had created a small puddle in one of Chad’s bags, specifically, the one that he kept our computer in. Now we hesitate to blame it all on the small puddle. It may have been from the long tumble the bag took after popping lose on the steep and bumpy gravel decent. Regardless of where to place the blame, our computer is dead, and is only good for keeping Chad’s bike balanced. We have to rely on tourist information centers which often have computers, or hostels, or kind people that let us use the computer to check a couple things. We will see how we are able to kept up the posts. We are now taking photos in a much lower resolution than we were before and that should get us around having to use the computer to adjust the image size before uploading to the net. We will see.

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