This Week's Bike Rides

On Wednesday I rode to the source of the Neckar River (Neckarquelle).  It took around 5hrs to get to there.  Since I still had 5hrs of daylight left, I rode back.  That made the total 210km (130miles).

Here is a picture of Betsy with a castle covered in clouds and mist near Beuren, which is the location of the thermal bath we went to today.  It is about 30miles away, but we took about 3 hours getting there, because the bike route was hard to follow, and we took several wrong turns.  We spent 2hrs at the the bath, which is similar to a roman bath; there were different temperature pools and sauna rooms, plus rooms for just lounging.  There were dry and wet saunas, and several scented saunas --vanilla & salt were two that we went in.  The final thing we did was going into a 36C (97F) pool with 20 different stations, each squirting water or air jets for massaging (back, foot, shoulders, etc.)  Every 45sec we had to switch to the next station --there was a big countdown clock above the pool for everyone to watch.