Lessons Learned.

"Traveling is a series of self imposed inconveniences" Marc often says. We do our best to avoid them, however we are always learning. 

Lesson 1. When dealing with zipties, make sure your partner's face is not close to your hand when you accidentally let go while tightening.  Sorry for the punch in the face Marc!

Lesson 2.  Leave lots of time for connections. We learned that if your flight is late leaving Toronto, yes you can land at 10:48 am and sprint through Frankfurt airport and make it to the furthest possible gate (Z24) before your 11:30 flight leaves. 

However, your luggage cannot. 

We landed in Belgrade at 13:30. Our luggage and bikes landed in Belgrade at 23:30. 

So we set up camp, finding comfortable benches. 

And waited for 10 hours.

And then celebrated their arrival and put the bikes back together (1am - 3am), but lost our comfy benches. 

Lesson 3. It is very good to travel with your own bed (thermarest and sleeping bag) so when you sleep on the floor at the airport, you are at least a bit more comfortable waiting for the sun to rise 

....and the sun did rise, and off we set. 

Good morning Belgrade!

And CHEERS to all the lessons to come

Stats:

Had Strava on for trip from airport. But forgot to use airplane mode. So ran battery down. Oops. 

Another Learning! 

Here are the stats for the airport ride but not the site seeing. 

Add 15-20k