{"id":160,"date":"2015-06-20T07:46:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T12:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/?p=160"},"modified":"2024-06-17T18:57:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:57:55","slug":"i-do-try-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/i-do-try-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I do try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-1434804368157.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1434804368157\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-1434804368157.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am fine, but the photo is exactly what it looks like &#8211; an IV into my arm. &#8220;Acute viral infection.&#8221; I had stomach trouble yesterday, which I initially attributed to dairy, but that became a high fever, so I went to the doctor. <\/p>\n<p>The doctor brought my fever down, and I&#8217;m weak (not having eaten since yesterday afternoon) but feeling better. The doctor said to take it easy for two-three days, so I&#8217;m stuck in the beach\/party central spot on the Bulgarian Black Sea for a two days. And the day after that? Rain in the forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning I rebuilt the front brakes (including replacing the cable), and resolved the front brake issue (again). Rear brakes also adjusted. The hostel owner formerly owned a bike repair shop, so we bonded during the repairs and he helped clean and oil my chain from the mud the day before.<\/p>\n<p>My repair kit depeted, I cycled to a shop to replace the cable, after some discussion with the shop because my cables aren&#8217;t standard. After a while of unfruitfully cycling around town, cycled to Tourist Information to ask about a shop to buy underwear (a pair being lost in the great laundry fiasco of the day before). Always glad to provide entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Now fully resupplied but a late start, I arrived at the walled city of Nesebar by 2:30. I&#8217;m trying to be somewhere by 2:30, and be off the road until 4:30, skipping the peak heat of the day. Nesebar\u00a0is no Visby, Gotland, but pretty enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-14347909032081.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1434790903208\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-14347909032081.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After lunch, things went south. Failing to find a campground where the map indicated, I&#8217;m in this hotel. The larger, 5-star hotels have doctors on staff; the staff here called around, and someone picked me up. First American to be treated here.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part I think is the wireless in my hotel is poor to non-existent. But there are cherry trees outside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-14347980954621.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1434798095462\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-14347980954621.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am fine, but the photo is exactly what it looks like &#8211; an IV into my arm. &#8220;Acute viral infection.&#8221; I had stomach trouble yesterday, which I initially attributed to dairy, but that became a high fever, so I went to the doctor. The doctor brought my fever down, and I&#8217;m weak (not having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/i-do-try-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I do try&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}