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DAY 159 | Russia | How To Move The Stars | A bicycle ride around the world · How To Move The Stars | A bicycle ride twice around the world

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  July 22nd, 2013. Resting today I didn't bicycle
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  anywhere. Today I was appreciating having
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  company in this place is stunningly beautiful.
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  Green valleys meander away in many directions, with grasses
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  and forests covering the slopes of the angular mountains.
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  Light and shadows played across the scene and throughout the day
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  as continuously struck by the magnificence.
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  I spent time with the two women from Moscow on summer break from
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  university there in the Bonnie with me last night.
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  I commented on the intense heat and they said everyone could
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  tell I wasn't Russian when I left so quickly.
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  They were both artists and we shared sketches from our
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  journals. One of the women had a wonderful
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  pencil drawing of smooth rocks on a stream bed.
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  I showed them my ink landscapes from across Russia.
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  The pages were filled with clouds and sky, but in this
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  mountainous terrain, my eyes once again drawn to the land.
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  Tonight was not as raucous as yesterday.
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  People were tired and went to bed early.
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  I've got my hammock hanging by the river.
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  The sky is now dark and the flowing water is all I hear.