Day 18
Rest day in Donauworth
1121km

Not much happening here today except eat, sleep and laundry! We have a campsite with a lake for swimming, which none of us have ventured into yet, but we have a new-comer with a 7 year old who might.

Brent, our Mad Bomber sponsor, joined us late last night after a harrowing trip in from Paris. What should have taken 3-4 hours took 11 after his rental car broke down. His son, Nicky, won’t soon forget this adventure with Dad!

We’re not sure exactly how it’s going to work having a young one along with us, but we’ll soon find out! Brent and Nicky are with us for about 4 days.

We had a long, but easy day of riding yesterday of over 100km. The riding was flat and not one of our more scenic routes, (farmer’s fields freshly manured up for planting), but nice, nonetheless, to follow what seems to be a normality in Germany – exceptional bike paths along the Danube River.

These mostly paved paths lead to over-confidence and we are trying to impress eachother with what sort of activities we can do while riding. David can take off his shirt, more difficult than you’d think as he first has to remove his man-purse that straps over his shoulder-blades, and then he must secure the shirt – all while riding no-hands.

I can eat a schnitzel sandwich, but it was already prepared, so I lost points. However, I can also get my MP3 player going.

Lucas can film while on the move – sort of. A few days ago, while trying to film a high speed downhill, he met with some unfortunately placed gravel and subsequently filmed his incredible wipe-out. He showed us the clip later, but said he wasn’t turning on the sound as he may have screamed like a girl when he went down….