Back in the Saddle

The bike adventure has continued!

Getting back into the saddle, or should I say torture devise, was rather painful. But we were luckily to have another great day of weather and beautiful countryside to look at. Within 3 minutes of setting off biking we were already confused by the directions. They read, " go to Trebon Square, go straight, then turn right at parking lot, than left, follow YHT, then turn left and then right". And let me tell you that your guess is as good as mine and you are reading this thousands of miles away. We still have never seen a sign for YHT and have no idea what it is. We did a good job guessing and were on our marry way. It only took a few more minutes until we were faced with more challenging directions. This time we knew we had to turn right but there were 3 path options to the right.... See the challenge. This one took us a long time to figure out. We knew we would have to cross a bridge after 2 km on the path, so we tried every path for 2 km. All the paths were very rough terrain so it was slow going... We couldn't find a bridge down any of the 3 paths. We decided to try to continue down our original trail, it worked! We found a bridge.

Eventually we reached a fork in the road- the way we were suppose to go led to a serious of small towns in a very hilly region, while the other direction lead to a big town where we knew there would be busses/ trains. This is when we decided to take matters into our own hands. We had already ridden more than 25 km, not including all the times we had gotten lost, and the big town was another 15 km away. I was starting to not feel so well due to dehydration (I had already had 2 1/2 full water bottles but for those of you who know me know that is not enough), so we headed for the big town of Jindrichuv Hradec (which we obviously had no problem pronouncing when asking for directions). We started by following a country road but by the time we got there it was practically a highway (which made for interesting riding).

After practicing our sign language again with the local Czech people, we found the train station. Jorie had an interesting time trying to tackle communicating were we needed to go but we eventually got tickets for a price well worth it. Our confusion only really increased from here.... The train people showed us to a truck rather than a train... We put our bikes in the back of the truck and then thought we would get on a train or bus. No we were wrong again (for all you Wo-girls and SMA girls out there reading this, please don't ever try this). A older Czech man who was giving us instructions at a mile a minute in a language we don't know eventually got his point across that we were suppose to come with him in the truck. We rode in the truck through beautiful country side to a town a few miles away where there was a train. The truck driver man pointed us to the train, we hopped on and crossed our fingers it was going in the right direction. Jorie and I were loving this adventure! We arrived at what looked like a deserted train station and were told to get off until our next train. When trying to figure out where we were on the map, an attractive guy appeared out of no where and explained this to us. We took our next train and again were told to get off at a town that was not our stop... This time we boarded a bus. The bus took us through more gorgeous countryside. We were dropped off in Telc, the town we are staying in! Amazing right! We are mastering the Czech transportation system.

Telc is yet another picturesque town. Our hotel is great, just what we need. However, our bathroom is on the weird side... It has mirrors on all the walls and doesn't have an enclosed shower, so you basically are forced to watch yourself shower. Also, the shower is the kind where you have to hold the spout head and spray yourself down- the combination of that and no enclosure made for a very wet bathroom in the end. Let me tell you it's a bazaar experience but I found shampooing my hair to be 10 times more fun in a mirror.


We wandered the town and had a great dinner topped off with ice cream! I have noticed that crocs are in here, its kind of like camp in that respect.