This is Alexandro. He speaks about as much English as I speak Italian, but we got along well because I complemented his bike. BMW is #1! He also has a Suzuki Mille GSX-R 1000. He tried to warn me about an upcoming road, but I took it anyway. I almost agreed with him afterwards.
This is Alexandro on his CBR900RR on a track in Croatia
Sono io con Honda cbr900rr fireblade, in pista in Croazia
SP 294 is 24km long by 3m wide, single Lane all the way with two-way traffic and about half of it has no guardrails with steep drop offs. Despite going only two or three miles per hour around some of the turns and honking my horn. When I couldn't see I had two close calls. And I was passed by a Porsche club of about 10 cars.
These are the narrow roads with steep dropoffs and no guard rails that Alexandro was warning me about.
It's 5:00pm and I have 140 km about 2 and 1/2 hours to go. But I'm done with all the really narrow twisty stuff for today.
Millions of apples
Another funicular
I arrived at my hotel quite late 8:40pm, at least an hour after dark. The last bit was hairy without a clear face shield and thinking about deer on the road. But I've yet to see large, wild animals in Europe.
Quatro Fromaggio
405 km today. Way too long. I need to keep the plan to well under 300 km/day. Arrived at 8:40 in the very very dark.
On the plus side, mid September in the Dolmites is treating me very well. It was 25°C almost all day and all altitudes.
