Day 1: Porto to Vagueira

First day on the bike for a long distance ride, everything felt good and as I knew the full route for this day, so it was very easy to manage the effort, even though I got a bit tired with the strong head winds that would keep me company for the first 3 days of the trip.

For my surprise, being this my first bike touring adventure, I found a lot of people on the way that were on similar adventures: a couple that started in Porto that are going to Sagres and I overheard 2 solo female riders talking and one of them had the goal to go to Morocco! As the European part of the journey was just the warm up.

Knowing that I wasn’t the only one on a mission really gave me some extra strength. On this night I decided to camp, but the windy conditions meant that I had a very poor night of sleep, which was a theme throughout the adventure.

Couldn't be happier with my first day on the road,