Oof we’re having too much fun to keep this blog updated!
- We had a good time wandering through Vilnius with Dress last Sunday
- We decided to change our route: instead of riding directly from Vilnius to Riga, on Monday morning we hopped on a train out to Klaipeda on the Baltic coast
- Klaipeda was a pretty chill city.. We ended up in a bar talking to two Americans who worked in a very specific unit of the US military. It was a pretty interesting conversation…. They had a lot to say
- We spent the next several days riding up the coast, crossing into Latvia along the way
- Liepaja was a really nice town with a mix of old buildings that had been restored, and old buildings that were falling apart. It also had a nice beach, though my pockets ended up full of seaweed
- Mostly it was just really nice riding through the countryside, popping into little stores for supplies, and occasionally rolling through a larger town with classic old European alleys and squares
- We got an amazing campsite on a bluff overlooking the ocean one night
- We also camped in a national park next to the second-widest waterfall in Latvia – we had passed by the widest (in all of Europe) earlier that day in Kuldiga.
- Once again we took the easy way out and hopped on a train the last 20 miles into Riga
- When we went to our hostel, right nearby there was a gathering of people with red hats…. Sure enough they said “Make Riga Great Again”. I made a joke about Zach and I forming the Latvian contingent of the Brass Liberation Orchestra, and then sure enough a brass band showed up! They did not interact with the MRGA crowd however
- We spent the rest of the day roaming the streets, probably spending equal time marveling at the architecture and the tourists. Riga is definitely a destination for roving bands of super-drunk, loud Brits.
