So, few hours ago we were in paradise. We are again. But between them there was The Rain. Well, technically it is still there. Practically we don't care. And do not get it wrong. We are still dry, our tent is dry and we are actually discussing whether there is really a need to put the warmer clothes on for the night.
So, the story goes like this. Having watched the rain for a while at Kalāči, we felt brave enough to show it he true crazyness within us and having found a number of quite interesting anti-rain solutions (that we will not describe in detail because we know our parents are passionate readers of this blog) we finally started to move towards our minimum target of today - Mārsnēni.
The walk was exactly what you would imagine a walk along a muddy countryside road through strong rain, almost stormlike wind and with quite heavy bags on to be. Hell.
Eventually, somehow still smiling (then again, we smile at each roadsign we see...) we reached Mārsnēni and went to sit under the first roof we saw completely ignoring the fact that we might be ruining the party for three guys already there. They actually spit out phrases like "would be better if noone would be sitting on the other side". We did think about leaving. Instead we started to check our walking progress and celebrating the half way done. They probably heard numbers we mentioned together with the word "kilometres" and it made them curious.
- Where exaclty are you going? - they asked.
- From Riga to Tartu.
- Oh, [word too rude for this blog], I can't even walk to the shop!
As selfish as we are we used this phrase to start a conversation abou where the shop is as we needed some food. As soon as we got to know it is around the corner and still open for another 45 minutes, rain suddenly did not matter.
When salesman got to know the reason why we look like we look, he turned from very confused into very supportive person. We charged our phones, we bought our food, we cikd sit and warm up in the shop and we had to tell other clients too why we look like we look.
When the shop was about to close (although they were not kicking us out, we were the polite ones to leave, they wanted to make sure that we find a nice place to stay the night. A suggestion came.
So, here we are. In the center of Mārsnēni open air stage, under a weeeell done roof where not only we do not get wet bt can even dry our clothes and where the wooden floor of the stage turns out to be way better ground for building a tent than some of our previously in deep darkness found "perfect places" have.
In general we wanted to share one conclusion we spontaneously reached today - if you go the way loving each step of it (and in our case it means finding new love for our land with pretty much each step), it shares your love and gives back. At least we feel it does, looking back at all the good things we never expected but have experienced within these five days. It really and truly feels like our dear, beloved, little, beautiful Latvia is personally taking care that we get out most of this time we spend wit her.
We now celebrate more than halfway done, 142km (Googlemaps calculations) left and weather forecast that says "clouds only".
And, of course, we are still alive.
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