Huelva, Spain

Just had a phat man lunch at Mcdonalds. Now i am headed South to Tarifa, Spain for the boat to Morocco. Today is Easter Sunday, i am settling into an idea that i cover 40 to 80 km a day. I was a bit shocked at how lo that is and am slowly just not carding. I am more into how much money i spend per day and my quality of life. On the money side already I am impressed with my budgetary shrewdness, $100 a day and if I drop the $292. I paid for 5 weeks of travel insurance i am more like $50 a day. I I can keep to $ 50 a day i will be in the butter cup if I want to travel the world.

On the positive I am impressed with quality of life, i guess I just like biking and camping. The constant change of scenery and the startled faces of people as I pull up. I’m impressed with how good I am doing cycling, monkey butt etc is not an issue. I don’t have a neg side, maybe I do, it can be tough some days, multiple issues all at the same time, and hygiene is a challenge. If I have enough water and privacy at camp site I can clean up surprisingly well. First real place I stay at, hoist etc I am going to wash my sleeping bag. I would like to buy a cotton sleeping sack.

Well I guess I better get going, the weather is about perfect.

Purdy

Here I am s of Lisbon , EnRoute Gibraltar.

It’s been about a week from Colorado , two days struggling through Lisbon , getting my sea legs. I do not make many miles

Today is the 17th ,April 25 I think.

I am on the south coast of Portugal at a lovely rv park, 7 e a night, did a load of laundry at 5 e and bought breakfast , a baguette, 6eggsand yogurt for 5e. Other than the laundry a real bargain and the Miele washers got my cloths crazy clean. I have one lightweight pair of pants that turn into shorts if needed, one s sleeve button up collared shirt and a tie, that is for dress up, airport day and stand up day and you never know I might get date nite! Two pairs of rugged bike shorts with zipper pockets for passport/phone holding as well as supper padded inner liner butt comfort. 2 t shirts, 1 bike shirt, 2 cotton paid of socks and one cold weather thin socks. 1 pair of boxer shorts 1 pair of swim trunks.

Stir the 1st time in my cycling career I am looked upon as the heavy hauler, dang it how did that happen? 2 man tent, cold weather sleeping bag and yoga mat style sleeping pad, they take up my rear panniers. Throw in the 4 liter water blaster and the 15 watt solar panel, IT section and folding chair and the rear is loaded.

It is all a work in progress that I dare to say will always be changing, updating etc. AND to my chagrin, things break or in the case of my blink red light, get lost!

My start at writing is with a little folding blue tooth key pad that props up the phone horizontally. While sitting in my folding chair i have one my legs, very comfortable for hauling all on my bike.

I am out to get my big 20, and my little 10, battery’s full charged while here at the rv park which may entail another night, still early. I find this better than sitting at a McDonald’s and healthier. I’m on med sea so after a tidy I think I will take a walk and ck it out.

Purdy

Dana

My Friend of 42 years Dana Sarfe passed this morning. Her bubbling smile and positive everything will be missed. From the time I met here she rarely did not have a cigarette in here mouth and a beer in her hand, she explained to me that a person should be happy. If that was the measurement of happiness she was the happiest person I ever met. She was a baldy brat of the best , mindbogglingly hard working and resourceful. The tougher the job the more tenacious and cheerful she got, a real workaround that you had to have to make it in Baldy.

Thanks for being my friend,

Purdy

Poor Vladimir

As orange mans friend and fellow Fascist plunders Ukrain with his visions of grandor, of the great patriotic war of the USSR he got one minor thing wrong, Lend lease.

According to Wikipidia; The United States delivered to the Soviet Union from October 1, 1941, to May 31, 1945 the following: 427,284 trucks, 13,303 combat vehicles, 35,170 motorcycles, 2,328 ordnance service vehicles, 2,670,371 tons of petroleum products (gasoline and oil) or 57.8 percent of the high-octane aviation fuel,[33] 4,478,116 tons of foodstuffs (canned meats, sugar, flour, salt, etc.), 1,911 steam locomotives, 66 diesel locomotives, 9,920 flat cars, 1,000 dump cars, 120 tank cars, and 35 heavy machinery cars. Provided ordnance goods (ammunition, artillery shells, mines, assorted explosives) amounted to 53 percent of total domestic consumption.[33] One item typical of many was a tire plant that was lifted bodily from the Ford Company’s River Rouge Plant and transferred to the USSR. The 1947 money value of the supplies and services amounted to about $11 billion.[64]

And the British

Between June 1941 and May 1945, Britain delivered to the USSR:

  • 3,000+ Hurricane aircraft
  • 4,000+ other aircraft
  • 27 naval vessels
  • 5,218 tanks (including 1,380 Valentines from Canada)
  • 5,000+ anti-tank guns
  • 4,020 ambulances and trucks
  • 323 machinery trucks (mobile vehicle workshops equipped with generators and all the welding and power tools required to perform heavy servicing)
  • 1,212 Universal Carriers and Loyd Carriers (with another 1,348 from Canada)
  • 1,721 motorcycles
  • £1.15bn ($1.55bn) worth of aircraft engines
  • 1,474 radar sets
  • 4,338 radio sets
  • 600 naval radar and sonar sets
  • Hundreds of naval guns
  • 15 million pairs of boots

In total 4 million tonnes of war material including food and medical supplies were delivered. The munitions totaled £308m (not including naval munitions supplied), the food and raw materials totaled £120m in 1946 index. In accordance with the Anglo-Soviet Military Supplies Agreement of June 27, 1942, military aid sent from Britain to the Soviet Union during the war was entirely free of charge.

The problem that all facists have is they start believing ther own BS to the own demise. As we watch Vladimirs slow demise we will all suffer, he will endeavor to bring us all down rather then see the truth all around him, Oh Vladimir how a oversite can be so costly.