CHRIS: Somewhat rough night woken by the mosquito about 4 times and itchy bites. But in the morning, the shower was very nice. Black coffee in the room, then pack and head out.
Cloudy sky has me a little worried, but we’ll see. I got a little light rain around 10am, then a perfect day with really great riding all around. I decided to take the long way from Porto Vecchio to Bonifacio even though the sky was threatening. At the top it was cold, so I put on everything and just as I headed across the ridge, the rain opened up hard with lots of thunder. I rode slow, with a clear face shield and it wasn’t too bad. In the rain for real only about 15 minutes and another half hour of light rain. Then I was all dried out by Bonifacio.
Walked the Cita Alta and found a restaurant with a nice goat cheese salad. Perfect dinner, then down to wait for the ferry. In line I met Paolo and his girlfriend (forget her name!) and we had a good conversation about riding in Corsica and Sardinia. Paolo flies the 737 for Ryan Air. They live in Palermo. I hope they visit PDX and I’ll definitely look them up next time we are in Palermo.
The ferry was small but can still easily squeeze in a few more bikes. Less worry about tickets in the future. The 8:30 departure was perfect as we got to watch a great sunset from the boat on the way across. In town, unloading was quick and the hotel was 2 minutes away. Really nice hotel, will definitely recommend.
The GPS datalogger was working like crap today. Lots of gaps and low update rate. Is this correlated with wearing rain gear?
KATHI:
Corsica third full day, Ajeccio to Bonifacio and ferry to Sardinia
| Time | Minutes | km | kph avg | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:59am | 0.2 | map | ||
| 8:59am | 35.2 | 22 km | 37 | |
| 9:35am | 3.6 | map | ||
| 9:38am | 8.2 | 4 km | 30 | |
| 9:46am | 0.3 | map | ||
| 9:47am | 18.9 | 8 km | 24 | |
| 10:06am | 0.3 | map | ||
| 10:06am | 10.2 | 6 km | 33 | |
| 10:16am | 0.0 | map | ||
| 10:16am | 19.0 | 14 km | 45 | |
| 10:45am | 0.0 | map | ||
| 10:45am | 2.9 | 0 km | 7 | |
| 10:48am | 0.3 | map | ||
| 10:48am | 40.0 | 25 km | 38 | |
| 11:30am | 2.5 | map | ||
| 11:32am | 28.4 | 16 km | 34 | |
| 12:02pm | 0.0 | map | ||
| 12:02pm | 43.9 | 20 km | 27 | |
| 12:46pm | 2.4 | map | ||
| 12:48pm | 39.2 | 28 km | 43 | |
| 1:27pm | 28.3 | map | ||
| 1:55pm | 19.2 | 18 km | 55 | |
| 2:15pm | 0.3 | map | ||
| 2:15pm | 9.8 | 6 km | 37 | |
| 2:25pm | 6.8 | map | ||
| 2:32pm | 12.5 | 9 km | 42 | |
| 2:44pm | 0.6 | map | ||
| 2:45pm | 21.5 | 17 km | 47 | |
| 3:06pm | 1.8 | map | ||
| 3:08pm | 107.2 | 43 km | 24 | |
| 4:55pm | 4.8 | map | ||
| 5:00pm | 43.9 | 34 km | 47 | |
| 5:44pm | 2.3 | map | ||
| 5:46pm | 3.9 | 0 km | 7 | |
| 5:50pm | 1.1 | map | ||
| 5:51pm | 13.7 | 5 km | 24 | |
| 6:05pm | 4.2 | map | ||
| 6:09pm | 5.3 | 1 km | 6 | |
| 6:14pm | 12.6 | map | ||
| 6:27pm | 6.7 | 0 km | 4 | |
| 6:34pm | 5.9 | map | ||
| 6:40pm | 2.4 | 0 km | 8 | |
| 6:42pm | 3.0 | map | ||
| 6:45pm | 2.5 | 0 km | 6 | |
| 6:48pm | 2.6 | map | ||
| 6:50pm | 10.2 | 1 km | 7 | |
| 7:01pm | 0.0 | map | ||
| 7:01pm | 5.2 | 1 km | 14 | |
| 7:07pm | 0.6 | map | ||
| 7:07pm | 0.1 | 0 km | 53 | |
| 7:12pm | 0.1 | map | ||
| 7:12pm | 1.5 | 0 km | 2 | |
| 7:14pm | 23.0 | map | ||
| 7:37pm | 1.6 | 0 km | 3 | |
| 7:39pm | 15.0 | map | ||
| 7:54pm | 1.4 | 0 km | 3 | |
| 7:55pm | 28.4 | map | ||
| 8:24pm | 53.8 | 18 km | 20 | |
| 9:17pm | 1.4 | map | ||
| 9:19pm | 0.1 | 0 km | 40 | |
| 9:23pm | 0.5 | map | ||
| 12h30m | 9h51m moving | 304 km | 30.8 kph | 79% moving, 158 minutes of breaks |