We live as long as we fly
I'm home after 10 hours on the road (2 to the airport, 2 waiting, 3 in flight and 3 to Daugavpils from Riga). I'm dying for some sleep – we left the hotel at 2 in the morning. But otherwise everything is fine.
Crete is nice. I stayed off the internet so as not to ruin my karma. Andrey bought an internet smart card at the hotel, but he wasn't happy with the speed and rode off to a village internet café on the pathetic little bike I'd rented. He left the card with me.
TaskManager is disabled by admin policies, but the wonderful taskkill command isn't. So my internet is now free and unlimited, even though I don't need it.
I'm flying out to the island of Crete for a week at 1:45 AM. I don't have a laptop, so I won't reply to anything, and I won't write anything. Will there be a report? Great Spaghetti Monster willing, there will be.
Went to Medumi. Didn't feel like taking the same road back, so I rolled along the dirt road. Made a description on Google Maps, the markers are filled in, hover your mouse over them and read if you really have absolutely nothing better to do. It's picturesque in Medumi. And it smells nice when you ride along the dirt road leading to Svente. I rode 61 kilometers in 4.5 hours. Speed, excluding dawdling, was 22-25 km/h on the asphalt (the hills are terrifying up to the border) and 15-20 on the dirt road (the washboarding – my respects). Next season I'll retrofit my bike for trails, meaning unpaved roads. I'll buy wide rims, tires, a fork, and if I have the money – a seatpost.