Thursday June 9
4 stamp day
We work early and were on the road by 8am again. The next checkpoint was only about 3kms from where we stayed, Nakdanbo. After this was a really nice country ride through some smaller bike paths and villages.
As we entered Sanju we came across some amazing bridges (just for cyclists) and beautiful Korean traditional buildings.
We visited the free Bicycle museum (which was air conditioned), we met a couple of American men riding south and they helped us with a few tips such as the Bike app I downloaded to help with finding food & accommodation.
After the bike museum we came across the next checkpoint Sangjubo Weir. Again bike motifs everywhere. This district really liked cyclists.
Back on the trail and again through more rice fields, dairy & cattle farms, and villages. next checkpoint was Sangju Sangpoong bridge and was the start of another river route.
More fabulous scenery on our way to find lunch.
We came across this random flying club in the middle of nowhere. There was a stretch of concrete not far from there, but it was quite narrow and not very long.
We stopped for a bit of a rest at a small park, where we refilled water bottles and sat in the shade for a bit, then we used Google maps to seek out pizza and found it. Garlic Steak pizza was our choice for the day.
The next check point was Mungyeong Buljeong Station, which was a disused railway station that now did Railway cycling.
The Bicycle friendly hotel we stayed in for the night, dinner at Mexicana Chicken - we ordered way too much, but we managed to have it for breakfast & lunch the next day. This town was 200m above sea level and very close to the start of the mountain climb.
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