2018-10-20 Day 39 Sat

Out of camp and onto the main road south. Made a small detour on the highway to bypass a town, forgetting that we need to buy a highway pass here… Back on the orange road John noticed police following and as soon as there was room for us to pull over he put his lights & siren on. Very friendly policeman wanted to know what sort of vehicle so looked at our rego. He wanted to know if it was a caravan or truck. We showed on the paperwork it is registered as a caravan but shortened to carvn. The road we were on was an orange and I think commercial vehicles needed to pay. He was very nice and had good English (still raises the heart rate though).

Made it up over 1000m altitude again today. We came down a very windy hill into Liptovsky Mikulas in the lower Tatras. A very touristy town. Lots of walks, bike tracks, caves and ski lifts and a lift to the top of the hill at 2200m. We stopped at the information office to find some details out. I got my paperwork printed then filled it out and scanned it.

It has been real foggy in the mornings and it doesn’t clear. Almost like a smoke haze hanging around but not many houses have their fires going yet, so not really sure what is causing it so no point in a ride to the top of the hill today.

We asked for a recommendation for lunch and went to the little restaurant. The food was nice but very heavy. I had dumplings/ravioli which had a rather thick dough and john had goats cheese noodles and sausage which was also heavy, but nice.

Deciding on a walk we drove back the way we had come. The walk was nice about 1hr 30min up a riverbed. Not too steep, and my knees were OK. Got to the waterfall which had a tinkle coming over and a quick walk back down. Wore off lunch if nothing else!!

Drive around for a bit looking for a campsite but ended back at the car-park for the walk.

116km