Day 24 - Copenhagen to Vienna Bike Trip Summary

Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race.

H.G. Wells 

Copenhagen to Vienna bike trip summary

Miles ridden: 927 miles

Elevation gain: 30,975 feet

# of Countries: 4 - Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria

# of flat tires: 0

# of times the chain fell off: 0

# of bicycle light malfunctions: The radar didn't work at times

# of diabetes monitoring device malfunctions: 0, yay!

# of items lost, broken, or left behind: 6 - The fairing and most of it's attachments. After 3 hits to the fairing, it went to the trash can in a small town outside of Prague. 

The magnet for the brake regen came off twice. 

A pannier clip broke but we were able to find a replacement in Prague. 

Two chain rollers broke, but Tony worked with Matt to have four shipped to us. 

Tony left a bottle of wine in the wine cooler at Furth bei Göttweig.

Sill missing 2 half bottles of sunscreen that Joan supposedly packed.

# of dogs that came running after us: 0. 

# of different wildlife seen on the bike: 6 - Deer, jack rabbits, hedgehog (dead), groundhog (dead), moose (heard), mouse, squirrel, chipmunk

# of people asking us about the tandem, taking our picture, thumbs up, yelling out positive comments: hundreds

# of visits to Aldi: or Lidl 4+

# of visits to a bakery: Countless

Blessings to be thankful for on this trip:

• Matt for getting a chain roller shipped to a bike shop in  
• Meeting and talking to so many kind people.
• Injury free trip except for some minor scrapes when the pedals hit Tony's legs, and the scrapes from the bridge that we clipped.
• Finding a bike shop that repaired our fairing bracket.
• The people that prayed for us before & during our ride.
• The thousands of smiles, waves, high-fives, thumbs ups, positive comments from all the great people along the way.
• Wade, Linda, A.J., Santi, Rafi & Roxy for Luna sitting.
• Cara, Nick, Luke, Todd, Scott, Jane & Jude for house & garden sitting.
• Wade & AJ for transporting us to and from the airport.
• Our children and grandchildren for video chatting with us to allow us to check in with grandkids, especially for Grandma/Oma.
• The faithful readers of this blog that give Tony the incentive to keep doing his half even when he really just wants to go to bed.

We were greeted by this wonderful sign at the airport in Indianapolis. Our uber driver (Wade) fell putting AJ to bed, but luckily woke up in time to pick us up around 9:00 pm. Only 2 of our 3 bags made it. The one remained in Toronto. We eventually got it shipped to us on Sept 11.