Bicycle Tour, Day 19: I ate the wrong mushrooms... | Arriving at my final destination

The last night I found myself a really good spot for a camp, next to a lake, so I decided to cook a little; I made a pot of porridge and collected some mushrooms around the camp site to fry on the pan.
Don't freak out guys, I didn't eat any poisonous mushrooms - they were all boletes. But what I forgot was the fact that certain bolete species require a thorough cooking, otherwise they might upset the stomach. So yeah, that's what happened to me; having going to sleep, I woke up around 1 am. to an iffy feeling in my stomach. And that was the moment when I realized frying wasn't enough... I escaped from my sleeping bag under the tarp to first make a standard bladder emptying after which I started puking. Rip, porridge and nuts, your calories will be missed. Though maybe some of it went through since it was 4-5 hours in before throwing up.

Maybe I shouldn't be talking about this while eating chips and drinking coffee. Oh, right! I actually made it to my end destination today. So, here I am finally after 19 days, enjoying the warmth of an earlier heated fireplace still emitting stored heatwaves after having eaten well and taking an extendedly long hot shower.

Riding here, to Lieksa, was actually the original idea, but then it got introduced with going to Hanko, just for the sake of visiting it, and seeing couple friends at Tampere AND now with Steem being part of my life, meeting a few other Steemians, so it's been pretty darn good. And now I got to chill, first and foremost, and go see all my relatives here in the city - the cool relatives from my father's side (unlike those from my mother's side who are bit... eh... just read it yourself) who'll get to wonder what the hell has gone to me to make such "stunt" :D

I have a lot of relatives here, used to live here myself too as a young kid, so I think I'm going to spend a week at least here - getting from Tampere to here (490 kilometers) took exactly a one week, just exactly as I was anticipating, and getting back home is about the same so it wouldn't be too much worth it if I spent just day here and left. Imma take it easy for once.

I biked 124 kilometers today, which is actually the longest distance I've covered in a day so far, and 200 km in 2 days. Damn long distances, especially with 20+ kg of gear - not perhaps individually - but when I have several hundred km behind me, it is quite a lot. So much that keeping such daily distances consistently I wouldn't try to do. But usually being close to destination gives you a little push - and extra time that doesn't have to be used for setting up a camp.

I'll show you some of the wonders I encountered today.

^{Showers and partly sunny weather resulted with a lof rainbows.}

^{It looked like it started from the lake.}

^{Double rainbow.}

^{If you look closely you can see two adult swans with three babies.}

^{A so called "devil's field" (pirunpelto) - right next to the road - as we call in Finnish; an ancient shore originating as a result of ice age.}

^{I like to keep lunch breaks in small bus huts such as this.}

^{Nice welcome: "fuck you", or literally translated: "smell shit".}

^Peekaboo!

^{The nature is impressive here in Eastern-Finland this time of year.}

PS. Where did all my chips go?

PPS. I need to get some sleep - I'm having micro-sleeps while writing this.