this ride was the hardest ride so far. although only 60 miles, it took us 6 hrs with steve having the chills prior to reaching our hotel. the ride is almost all on 2 lane highway. you would think in this island there;s no traffic.. omg, it was scary because when cars and trucks (lots of them) are passing us, they had to cross over to the on-coming traffic. we ended up riding a lot of side walks with uneven pavement and ups and downs on the curb. this kind of riding really wore us down. we manange to climb few hills and steve didnt look too good on the last couple hours. we must have been doing like 5 mph the last few miles as i thought he was gonna pass out. we went to the hotel and after checked in, he crashed. knock on his door for dinner and he didnt even answer. went to chinese restaurant by myself and no one speaks chinese....imaging that. and so far, none of the restaurants i:ve gone to has english menu.
woke up the next day steve said he feels ok. we plan on riding 20-30 miles on the single lane highway again and hopefully being sunday, there wont be too many cars.
regarding my garmin. i inputted long/lat data on various stops on the ride on my device. it was useful as it show the direction and distance from the stop. the only problem is that it shows the linear distance and not the actual ride distance. along with steves pirated gps mapping and some printed out google maps, i was surprised we found all our hotels....eventually.
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