February 18, 2015
Day 34 - Nis to Paracin: Headwinds - 7, Me - 0
Getting out of Nis was as easy as getting in. That alone makes it worth a visit.
Windy again. Tired after 35km, when I left the motorway due to the shoulder disappearing. Oddly enough, the southbound lanes had a shoulder. Ready to stop after 50km. Now, utterly exhausted. Can't see clearly because two days of icy headwinds have dried out my eyes. It's not fair that I have to put up with winter wind but don't get the benefits of a real winter. A proper winter would have snow on the roads, snow that has been driven on enough to become hardpack, filling in all the potholes and other breaks in the road. I can dream, can't I?
Paracin is yet another interesting town. I got stuck paying too much for accommodation, but it's in a wonderfully ugly hotel, that looks like it was a Yugoslavian attempt at a landmark. From the outside, it looks a bit like an old-time futuristic concrete Christmas tree: sort of round with stubby branches, wide at the bottom, narrow at the top. Inside, it has a round central core containing the stairs and a shaky elevator, and the corridor runs in a circle around it, the rooms arranged around the outer edge. My room was on the second floor and I didn't check out the upper floors, so now I'm left wondering how they're set up, since each floor is smaller than the one below it.
Today's ride: 85 km (53 miles)
Total: 1,584 km (984 miles)
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