Day 562 – Quissama to Macae

562                                                                 2nd February 2018

35 miles (Quissama to Macae) Average speed 11 mph Top speed 28 mph

Computer broken down after 15 miles, so these are estimates, as are yesterday’s. I really should remove it before washing the bike!!!

I was up at 8 for brekkie of toasted ham and cheese sarnies with scrambled eggs and coffee. My computer was broken so I tried to dry it out in the sun, which surprisingly worked, but not before I’d dropped the battery under the pool decking. Also surprisingly I had the brain functioning enough to use the headphone speakers’ magnet to fish it out first time!

I left at 10.45 and followed a good road for seven miles to reconnect with the e178, but then once again it turned to sand and I had to negotiate 4 miles of wet, rutted track. At one point a delivery driver asked if I was OK and needed a lift. This was the first person in over 50 miles of sand who had offered assistance or even acknowledged my problems. Normally they just engulfed me in a cloud of dust. I made it to the main road and then had to contend with a headwind and quite a few hills. I stopped in Carapebus for a drink of orange and a Snickers for energy and pushed on up the hills.

Hostel Macae 50 reais.