We traveled about 680 km across Austria today. All on the highway, the weather was pretty cramped, to put it mildly ... but that could not cloud our mood ... on the contrary. With the groovy music of DJ Love-inia in the ear, sugus or cassis lozenges in the mouth and the certainty of having less fortune with each peep of the go-box on the windshield, we reached our destination: with joy in the heart, a big smile on the face and fun to drive eastward on the locomotion.
Incidentally, yesterday was the first maintenance and lubrication session to keep our "Muni" happy and chugging. On a large parking lot in a commercial zone we went strictly to manual (Lorenz read and Xoff crawled under the vehicle) from one grease nipple to the next and gave the hard-working camps the necessary portion of grease and oiled other much-used parts.
A short detour through the Berchtesgadener Land allowed us to cover the route to Graz so quickly. In addition, we can count Germany to the travelled countries, even if it was only the southeastern tip. But at least we enjoyed lunch at a German motorway service area.
Now we are standing on a fallow near Graz. In the nearby shopping center we bought wonderful salad and the much needed increase of our drinking water supply. Enriched with salsiz and cheese from the Bündner Alp, bread from the Kult Bäckerei from the farewell evening on Saturday in Basel and hard-boiled eggs with Aromat and a piccolo bottle of sparkling wine to celebrate the day, we enjoyed dinner in our cozy mobile home away from home while the rabbits fought outside and one truck after another did the same as we did and went to the secluded spot in a depression to spend the night.
Everything is not perfect yet and we are still getting used to it: I had forgotten to load the MacBook. So now I have to write this report on my phone.
We also managed to leave the main power switch on, which gave us both hot water and an empty battery.
I realize that charging the batteries of various devices is a veritable challenge. Running the generator for hours each time to recharge the batteries in the evening is suboptimal, especially as the unit's rattle disturbs the beloved silence of the evenings. Since I have to work with much more foresight and organization, otherwise it will be tedious.
Tomorrow we will arrive in Hungary ... I am looking forward to it because this country is completely unknown to us both so far.
If we find a nice spot we may spend a rest day at Lake Balaton, the big and seemingly very popular lake. Then maybe I can sort out the shambles in my huge tech box, which is a prerequisite for the use of the extensive equipment.
And Lorenz and I have to rest after the hardships of the past few weeks in order to be able to engage freely and openly in our adventure.
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