Bicycle Tour, Day 6: Bugged out

Ok, so I got moving again today. Unfortunately my knee is still hurting, not unbearably, but I tried taking it easy nonetheless; changing the gear to a smaller and grinding it out instead of pushing it through with force.

Today was the first day I encountered some other tour cyclists as well; a Russian couple on their way to Turku. I earlier thought I might go there too, but decided to take the shorter route right towards my next goal - which I might as well give out now - Tampere. I'm now at Salo, so it's probably going to take about two days, until at Tampere, without crazy hurry. I can't actually wait because I've been pretty much alone the whole duration of these 6 days. I've thought of myself as an introverted - and I still think I am - but maybe not as much as I've thought. I mean, seeing all amazing views and nature and all that is cool, but it doesn't really fill me on any deep level. Nice things for the eye, so what? (No, I'm not discrediting photographers.)

^{Got all fancy with the tarp and made it into kind of a tent pattern.}

Anyhow, today's camp: I found an excellent location again, at the top of a hill with moss and lichen softening the ground beneath me - this is as comfortable as it gets. Or maybe not. Somehow a lot of ladybugs appeared right away upon my arrival and for some reason they are really keen on my gear, sometimes crawling on me too.

I think there was a grasshopper too inside my tarp, because I felt something jumping on my head, and now I can hear it chirping - two actually, but they're outside. Luckily I brought my earplugs - they have been the real mvp of this trip, because there's surprisingly a lot of ambient noise that one might not think of having slept inside usually, like surprisingly a lot of cars going even late at night. Right now can hear a car at all times and it's 11pm.

Few mosquitos got me too - how are you still here? Go back to your holes waiting for winter!