Two-day Bike Tour

I like adventures and like to do things that are different so when I saw that Sibiu offered a two-day, 80-mile bike tour, I thought, "yes, that sounds awesome" and I booked it. So today, we met at 8:30 AM. We loaded our bike bags and were off for a two-hour car drive to our drop off point location. We were all excited and everything was going awesome until it wasn't.

Little did I know that Transylvania was so hilly and THE HILLS SUPER SUCKED. The toughest part was that the last 10 KM was almost all hills and we probably walked about 5 KM of that 10 KM. Walking our bikes UPHILL after already biking for five hours was nothing short of brutal. We biked 57 KM total, which took us us six hours (included our stop at the Priest's house and a stop for lunch). By the time we made it to our AMAZING guesthouse, we were so beyond spent (the ride was quite a bit tougher than I anticipated), but the guesthouse was so incredible and perfect. We were greeted by a lovely woman, who I'm not sure is Romanian, German or Dutch (but who cares), who took very good care of us. We had an authentic Romanian dinner of soup, bread, cabbage rolls, apple juice and plum schnapps -- all home made. The view at the guesthouse is spectacular and exactly what we needed to unwind a bit and let our bodies rest, BUT I am already super dreading our ride tomorrow. We were supposed to ride a total of 80 miles, but the kids said, "NO WAY." The littles agreed to riding 20 miles, the distance to our first sight-seeing point, and so after talking to the bike tour guy, that is the new plan. Twenty more miles tomorrow and we can say we did it! For the moment, I'm already proud and very exhausted.