Aranda de Duero – Palencia
There really isn’t much of a story to tell for this day. The landscape didn’t wow me as it did the past days, the roads were good but nothing special. There really wasn’t much to see.
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After booking a hotel on the outskirts of Palencia in an industrial area, I tried outsmarting my navigation system… that didn’t go too well. The gravel road I chose pretty quickly turned into a sandbox, and then into a crazy steep sandbox. While I was full on breaking down this sandy, slippery slope, my rear tire tried to overtake me multiple times. That was all the excitement of the day.
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