Monday the 16^th of march 2015. I started in Aschaffenburg and drove to the first city in the Spessart – Haibach. Here i had to altitude of 145 meters. This was allready realy exhausting and after the first hour i feelt dead for the day!

What I didn't knew, was that there will follow about altitude of 400 meters! The hardest moment was, as my navigation routes me to a vale where the only way up again is about 100 meters of stairs.... but there was no stairs!? The only thing there was, was a muddy forest path and a realy hard pitch, as you can see a little bit in the pictures below.

The beginning of the muddy way "upstairs"

Here I have marked the part where I had to carry my bike up.

After this action I decided that I wont trust the GPS-System in his own made routs anymore! I searched for the B8, a big road which should bring me to my fin Karbach. As you can see in the highsprofil the exhausting ascent was not the last one, and with a hurting knee on the road I often thought about stopping and putting up my tent.... If a traktor passes me, I thought about to attach myself with my bicycle... If a bus passes me I had thoughts like “oh only one station up the hill!” …..Time for a beer!!! After the beer I had still 18 KM to Karbach, but the following two little hills are the last one. After this I only have to drove downwards. So with the frech bravery of the beer I went on!


It was already dark as I reached the top of my route and I screamed a winner cry for beating the hill!


After an easy ride until Marktheidenfeld only downwards I had a last little Hill about 3 KM, but it was okay, cause my target is closer than ever :D Finaly I was cordially recived by Matze, my first warmshowers host. While I was showering, he cooked me some sauteed potatoes with eggs. :) (Matze took two egg-yolks out of one egg!)




Tuesday the 17.03.2015
Cause of the two egg-yolks, my knee which is hurting again and cause I have no rush, I decided to stay one more day in Karbach, with Matze. He is a forester and invited me, to join him at work. I decided to do a half day, so I could sleep enough (uuuhhh yeeeah, about 10 hours!!!). After we had lunch together, Matze picked me up and we drove to the woods.

Here Matze showed me his region in the woods (maybe not in this fingerpoint)

We picked up his colleague Jörg and startet to archive trees to sell.

Matze and Jörg at work

In the right you see the mark for the three. In the middle you see, that an ant also likes this Buche :)

The region Spessart is famous for oaks like this one. This oak is about 300 years old and a very nice exemplar.

After the threes are felled a big truck pulls them out off the woods. My nephew would like this one :)

For Niels :)

This kind of trucks can move better in the forrest than a tank, cause every tire has an own suspension.

This is an old millstone which was build in the forrest, but it was left behind cause it's broken

This is a very old building (about 100 years old), which is from one of the last factories which make real wooden cases (Echtholz Holzfuniere aus Eiche z. B.). The building is very impressive cause it is about four floors and no screw in it. Everything is made out of wood even the connectors!

Other side of the factory

This was the third day of my trip and allready seen so many things. Thanks to Matze, how took me with him. Tomorrow i will drive to Würzburg. My knee is still not in a good condition, but I will drive on slowly. Greetings to all of you :)