I just came back yesterday from the 5 day bike trip. I was 144 miles (230km). You can't compare it to biking in Holland, here they have hills, humidity (over 80%), more hills, high temperature (2 days over 32 C), and more hills. Besides that we had a big group of 18 kids with 5 counselors, and that was especially in the beginning an easy irritation thing for me. Not listening, dangerous passing, no communication, not listening again, whining, etc. And all that besides the hills :) We slept in between in churches, as we are from an Episcopal camp, that was kinda weird, but also cool actually. Here you have churches with kitchens and restrooms. Only no showers and beds. We slept on the ground for 4 nights, that was pretty okay. But no showers:
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