Friday before I left I visited Samuli at the hospital one more time. I think the mood was up and hopeful, he was out of all the wires, only one left was the tube between his ribs but the doctor said that they will take it out in an hour! And he was also walking and as the doctor said he needs to do something and not just lie down all the time. And surely he was trying to do everything himself :) Last time I heard he's supposed to get home on tuesday, but I think he is not able to fly because of the lungcondition.
Alena made him a nice get well card that I delivered. And Tanja has visited him and Tine was also going to, so that is really nice of them, because it's pretty god damn boring to be in hospital!
So I had prepared myself with paper map of northern Germany. And I only got lost once, actually not lost, I knew where I was and where I needed to get but couldn't find the right road. Once I got to the A1 highway it was smooth sailing all the way to Lübeck.
On the line to the ship there was like ten Finish bikers. I shared a cabin with one, 50 years old guy from Vaasa who had done eurotours every year since 1985 or something like that :D The other guy was telecommucation engineer if I remember correctly, he has been living in Belgium for last three year. So the boat trip was nice with good company, but there was no drinking and partying :( What the hell so I had no hangover today morning when I had to drive home :D
8 am I drove out of the ship and felt the weight of the world. I thought that I don't wanna go straight home so I drove around the the city and the harbour and had a nice cup of coffee at mutteri wich is a famous meeting place for bikers who drink coffee :D Today I've been mostly shattering to little peaces because I do not want to go back to work! The air hear is hot and moist, so I wonder how I can sleep, we'll see!
Here's couple of pictures because nobody wants to read my writings.
Hospital fashion 2011, stupid hospital doesn't have any loosefit clothes for the patients, so Samuli has to wear his own dirty stuff :( Although I took some clean underwear and t-shirts for him.
Total nights in hospital: still counting (not Juha)
Total nights in ship: 2 (not Samuli)
Total nights in tent: 5
Total nights on the trip: 36 (I might have counted wrong)
Total nights spend in hotels/motels: 12
So the greatest and biggest thanks I can give to all the couch hosts! Be sure to visit Finland and my and Samulis place!
Countrys visited, in order of appearance: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Neatherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria
Total driven kilometres were in Samulis bike but before the crash the number was over 9000.. I drove to Travemunde so I got pretty close to 10 000km.
Now to save some money for next trip! I think Samuli will write something here when he's back in Finland.
ps. there will be video update maybe tomorrow
- Juha
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