Digital Wanderer

This part will be about all sorts of minor preparations, so reading it is still optional.

On the Sunday before the week of departure, I went downtown and dropped off my bike for some minor repairs. The thing is, my pedals were clicking. The bike mechanic at "Trek" was too lazy to figure it out, said it was just the muddy seatpost clicking (which actually does happen a lot), and that he'd cleaned it. The right pedal didn't stop clicking, so I had to go to Hawaii Express, where my coworker Sveta's brother, Romuald, works. Even though he's still in school, the kid knows his stuff — without any preamble, he immediately offered to replace my pedals the second he heard the clicking. Even if it wasn't strictly necessary (which is unlikely), a working bike is way more important to me than cheaping out over 8 lats for the pedal replacement and parts. I also picked up 5 spare spokes, since they vary in length and our team mechanic wouldn't have been able to grab the right ones for my bike.

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As usually happens, I have no idea what exactly to write about. Therefore, at the beginning of each post, I will clarify what it's about.

So, first off, some technical and bureaucratic information. The pages where we agreed on the trip are in a special section. Also there are some short discussions in the comments.

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Я вернулся. В Турции круто. Вместо написания отчёта целый день читал интернет – соскучился.

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