So if you wanna join me for a while..............................................................

Oxford. Well, When last you heard the plan was to bike down to Stonehenge and back in just a few days. The impracticality of this set in in slowly, but surely. Since we were in the midst of facilitating the borrowing bicycles anyway, we decided that a bike trip somewhere would be good. We opted to go just as far Oxford.
Since, all of a sudden, we were going half the distance we thought we'd go, we had more time to play with. So we took all the back roads we could getting to Oxford. Because of this, though, we saw some amazing countryside and charming villages along the way. Unfortunately, the side roads are made with no regard for geological upheavals or tourists in any way. It wasn't that much farther than taking the main roads back, (76K vs 72K) but it was noticeably less flat.

There are some interesting sights we saw along the way. Just outside a town called Whipsnade, we found ourselves biking past a wild life park. We first noticed something strange about the high concentration of kangaroos in this area.....


There is also an abundance of painfully quaint houses along the way.




When we stopped for the night, we decided that it might be a good idea to essentially camp on the side of the road, just out of sight. While we looked for a place, we stumbled across the coolest tree. It was an old fallen willow, who'd been covered with ivy. This is where we slept.






Oxford is filled with beautiful, rich architecture. It's kind of a neat old town, filled with young people.








On the way back, just outside the town of Aylesbury, There are these neat old ruins, held up by scaffolding. We stopped and at granola bars in the castle.







Off to Lithuania!