PanAm Day 123 🇵🇪: Chimbote - Huarmey / back on the road / 140km/1178vm

After 3 days of recovery in Chimbote due to serious digestive problems, today I finally hit the road again 🚴‍♂️ I felt much better and had a bit more pressure on the pedals again 😃 Because of the strong headwind that was expected in the afternoon, I started early, before 7 a.m.
The first 90km were actually very bearable because of the wind. I passed a nice restaurant in the middle of the desert and thought to myself: just right for lunch. The restaurant was surprisingly beautifully decorated for the location, and the food was excellent! The very nice owner then gave me a big, thick guest book in which numerous cycle tourists from all over the world had already signed their names before me. Most of them actually travel between Alaska and Argentina, in both directions. So there are a lot of "crazy people" like me out there 😅
When I ask how much the meal costs, the nice lady answers: nothing! At first I don`t understand what she means, so I ask again how much the meal costs? Nothing! I look pretty astonished and ask: why? She: Cycle tourists don`t have to pay anything to me! It would have been about 9€, which is a lot of money for a Peruvian! I thank her a thousand times and am completely touched by her willingness to help. She asks about my route to Ushuaia, and I realize that she really deals with this topic and knows many different routes of her guests.
That was a real highlight of the day 🥰
During my stay, someone had apparently turned on the big fan outside again, because from then on I only made slow progress with a strong headwind. But no matter, I`ve arrived, and now there are only 3 days left to Lima, with slightly fewer kilometers each day. 😃

Total distance: 14349km

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