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Down the mountain and up the Sveri Via Ferrata with Serpentine (September 2023)

After our hike from Mestia to Ushguli, Racki and Zdenko took the “main road” down from Mestia in Thor and Serpentine and I went with Rosinante down the “off-road track”.

The track was more of a construction site with a lot of gravel but the views were amazing!

We found a wonderful place to stay at a river and the next day we continued to Sveri because I wanted Serpentine to take the Via Ferrata and the awesome swing! And of course: she loved it!

This swing is just amazing! Really, go there! More about it in one of my last posts.

After our adventure in Sveri, we had to go to Tbilisi because Serpentine’s flight got rerouted to Tbilisi. So it was time to say goodbye again but not forever. I hope she will visit me again some day soon!

Rosinante needs a recovery (June 2023)

Ani continued her journey and took the mountain pass we had taken before we met her.

Cindy and I wanted to go to a waterfall. On Google Maps the road leading there looked like a proper road. On Open Street Maps it looked different and a bit off-roady.

We decided to give it a try and quickly ended up in a famous off-road track. Rosinante did very well going up the small mountain on the very rocky track with a lot of stone steps.

Once we reached the upper part of the mountain, the track turned into a field of mud. Several cars already got stuck there and so did we with Rosinante. The first time, we managed to get her free on our own. The second time we asked somebody else to pull us out. After that we decided to park Rosinante at a nice spot and walk the rest of the way to the lake.

Suddenly while walking the track, Cindy recognized that she had lost her phone. We went back and looked hard for it. And we found it. It was just lying on a big metal pipe we had crossed before. And to both sides of the pipe there was water but the phone was just lying there in the only dry spot of the pipe. Several off-road cars must have crossed the pipe as well, but we just could pick it up again.

The lake was very beautiful and on the way there we saw one of the old UAZ Buchanka you can see often in Georgia. I love them.

Sea of green in northern Turkey (June 2023)

We continued our journey together and Cindy turned out to be not afraid when driving her van called Thor over the often demanding roads of northern Turkey.

One day, we had found a nice spot on Google Maps. It had been looking like a super nice place next to a lake. When we reached that place the track leading there turned out to be very muddy and soon Thor got stuck and we had to recover him with Rosinante. In the end we found a nice spot to stay next to the “lake” which turned out to be a swamp.

And Cindy and I developed our signature meal: wraps with vegetables and Pampe (a German word for kind of a spread for bread).