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Prologue
We leave around noon after returning from the employment office where I just registered when I changed my job. My parents say goodbye to me, my dad fulfilled the dream that his daughter set out on a journey he wanted all his life to experience - on a motorcycle, somewhere far away and it will be adventurous.
Machine
We started the bike a few days in advance, do not go with big suitcases, which are rather small-volume and so most things, tent, mats, sleeping bags, clothes, cooker and food are bound on a custom made carrier by RUGE Kralupy style ala Žlábek straps. We're on a classic Harley Davidson Sportster 1200 motorcycle.
The front rubber was exchanged with friends in a service centre in Zlín, the rear was professionally in Harley Davidson Ostrava and the pads were replaced on the rear brake in Harley Davidson Prague. Jakub of Ruge tunes the plate on the front brake and Radek himself changes the oil in his garage. The Garmin navigation from 2008, which we went to Morocco with was not fully operational, we have a problem with recharging. However, as a fashion accessory for a motorcycle, we take it with us, we also have a map on our mobile and tablet.
People ask us a tricky question at the beginning of the journey:
Where are you going and for how long?
In fact, we answer that we will see and that the goal of our journey is to go to the well-being, sleep in the wild on the wild and experience a bit of adventure and that we have a time of 3-5 weeks. And maybe we'll be back in a week because the weather is getting worse and it doesn't seem to improve in the next few weeks. I have training from hiking tours from the mountains and I am not afraid of the discomfort and in my driver of motorcycle Radek I gained confidence after the first few bends in our country near Adamov, where my parents pulled me for the first time with him and a scooter for a ride. Then one more ride to Prague, Radek rides wisely and has experience from previous expeditions with wheelchairs and so I am sitting on a motorcycle and heading south.
In the initial planning, we set ourselves the goal of Greece when it goes well through Italy and back through the Balkans, the route we choose according to the weather and nice places on the route. Our first kilometres will divert us to the south-west where we will participate in the biker charity event.
So we can go...
1st day - Thursday 2.5.2019 Adamov Zwettl Linz Laakirchen Nice weather, cold, we sleep at the highway 320 km
So we leave at 2.5. around noon from Adamov u Brna in the direction of Linz, before crossing the border near Znojmo, we have coffee at the gas station, the sun shines and so on the Austrian side we visit a lake, a dam and continue on winding roads. We drive past Zwettl, which is a partner church of Adamovsky with the Spring invented by my dad. The tour of the monastery was great, there are probably a few of them visiting if we arrive in Greece, one of the goals is also the monasteries of Meteora from the Stolen Torso of Jupiter movie and Italian monuments.
We will still remember the time when the sun was shining at Zwettl. There were only a few people in the monastery, no buses, but it is not so common according to the number of parking lots. I took a picture at the inner fountain, we go no further to the church, we would have to bypass the whole monastery.
At the dam, which we admired from the edge of our journey, the sun was still shining, we were thrilled and rested. Here would be a beautiful tourist vacation with a hostel in the camp. We go to Linz on local roads with a quality surface, a million corners, in the evening we pass the Šumava along the Austrian side, at Linz we buy a vignette and continue on the highway. The darkness caught us on the highway, so we're having a coffee at the gas station and choosing a place to sleep, there is a forest at the highway and an access path leads to it, and because it is almost dark and it looks like an early shower, we decide quickly and build a tent. The first day was beautiful though the temperatures were rather autumn, the excitement that we were on the road was great. However, the rain that started shortly after the tent was built will be our companion for a long time.
The first night of the wild was successful, quiet, nobody anywhere, earplugs. A grove near a field covered by a highway. There will be a couple of woods. The first packaging of the tent and all the equipment and attachments to the motorcycle. It's still fun, it will be worse, I hope as soon as possible. Radek fixes everything slowly but carefully and keeps it perfectly. Over time we will try different variants, so far it is - in the bag sleeping bags and shoes, partly in the pits. Good mobiles, good signal, it's coming.
Already at the beginning of the trip, we agreed that I would be in charge of navigation, that it is better to speak with a female voice than the voice of the actor Liška and so we always agree on the destination where we want to go and Radek lets me navigate. We have open helmets and I like to talk about it ... but the worst thing is when I know exactly where to go, but he decides not to go according to navigation but according to his judgment.
But I know exactly where to go !!
.... to be continued... :-)