Day Fifteen

How can I describe today? It was an incredible ride. We left arround 10:30 this morning again after a prayer for safety, we that is Angelo, Leona, Robin, Magdalena, Herman and myself jumped on our bikes and headed out of town to a lake called Peresa. The roads were very winding ,steep twistyand full of ruts . Our bike did not handle the steeps very well,poor Herman was having a difficult time there were more than a few times that we in the middle of going up and up and conk out, the bike that is not Herman. Angelo would come back and wonder where we were, I would up on with him and Leona while Herman got going again and up to the top. It is sucha beautiful country when you take these rides like this you get amazing views. The other thing that happened was we got a flat, now I thought what now? we are in the middle of no where right? not really, there are little communities spread out along the way. Every one has bikes so there is bound to be some one who can fix it but how to get 5 km up the road, no problem Robin our lightweight , probably 100lbs dripping wet, drove our bike standing up so as to keep pressure of the rear flat, while Magdalena got on with Angelo and Leona and Herman and I took Robins bike. We stopped where we had to turn and waited by the side of the road while Angelo and Robin took the bike a ways further where there was a guy who had the tools to fix tires, it took about an hour before they got back, meanwhile an inebriated local entertained us, it was pretty funny at times. Finally they returned and we were on our way to the lake. It is absolutely beautiful when you see it from on high with all the mts arround, we drove down to it and stayed awhile , the guys tried some fishing but no luck, we will have to buy some for our supper. We heade awy from the lake toward a huge dam which they open up every so often if the level gets to high, there was also electricity generated there as well. We headed out again by this time starving and going to a fish restaraunt, when we got there he said it will take an hour so we said lets head for home and fry our own that we picked up. In the distance we could see the dark clouds forming and knew rain was not far away, hopefully we will be home by then, we did manage to get a few sprinkles just as we got into town so not bad. I would not like to manoever those roads in the rain, it would be treacherous.
We got home safe and sound gracia mi Dios. Angelo and Leona cooked up the fish and it was superb, yum. Now we are exhausted and ready for good sleep. Buenas Noches