39 miles, 3.5 hours on the bike, elevation gain 0

What a lazy riding day this was. All of 39 miles. We’d planned to explore a few towns off-route but didn’t find the right roads to them.

I forgot to mention that yesterday we were wearing our Northwest Tandem Rally jerseys and met another couple wearing their New England Wicked Tandem Society (NEWTS) jerseys. We had a great time talking about the challenges of organizing tandem rallies. Today we wore our same jerseys and met up with a group from Vancouver, British Columbia. They recognized Puget Sound on our jerseys. It was a lot of fun chatting with them. They are riding from Passau to Budapest. We also met a guy traveling from Munich, Germany to India.

In Aschach we stopped to visit the Ship Building and Fishing Museum but it was closed.

Here’s a really cool gate in the woods we came upon while looking for the road to one of those towns.

In Eferding we bought some sandwiches and wine and biked along the Danube to a nice bench along the river and had our lunch. Here’s my picnic pal who joined us.

After another 10 kilometers we crossed the Danube on a cable ferry. A cable ferry is  one that is guided across a river or large body of water by cables connected to both shores. The cable keeps the ferry from being swept down stream on its crossing. What was especially fun about this crossing is that we got there right when a whole herd of kids arrived on their bikes heading home from school. They completely blocked the path for the cars getting off the ferry and just headed right on board as the few cars just squeezed their way off. It was clear these kids do this ride every day.

The ferry ride.

And the mass exodus on the other side.

After about 10 kilometers we arrived at our destination – Park Inn Hotel in Linz.

Believe it or not, this is a very nice place. We even have windows that open and air conditioning. (The past two hotels were just hot , hot , hot.)

A less than so-so dinner at a highly rated pizzaria and the end of another day.