Road tripping at last, no plans, no maps.

Hello world,

Do not make any plans, why bother. Sometimes it's best just to let it go, see what day will bring. I wanted to go to Spain on my scooter Suzuki Burgman 400, but it was damn risky thing to do. I was on a bus to Opole (city south west of Poland, close to Wroclaw) when it occurred to me - I'm driving to Spain, cool, but how on earth I'm gonna come back? Since I'm not staying in Spain for good, I will have to bring the bike back to Warsaw... damn it.
Drive back the same way ? In September after trip in Pyrenees ? Not such a good idea. So I decided to abandon my plans again. Seems like this year is no good for anything cause none of the things I planned really worked.

But I was there in Opole, the bike was fixed, I had some free time. So here it is a very very tiny motorcycle diary, hopefully it is a good beginning and it will lead to more trips in the future.

Day 1
I drove to Wroclaw from Opole through some nice little towns like Brzeg. When I arrived to the city it was like - where the hell am I going, where is the city centre? Wroclaw is beautiful, but unfortunately it's shit to drive there. Total chaos with trams trying to run you over everywhere. Especially for a newbie like me it was a challenge to find my way around. I called the office of the Film Festival KAN to see if anyone is there. It was funny. I went there and said - hi I won the main prize, can I have it? I had a 30 minutes chat with festival artistic director, and it was all good. I will keep in touch with them.
Then motorway all the way back to Opole...
I phoned my friend - a photographer and a cameraman, because I remember him saying months ago, when we first met, that he had a house in Bieszczady Mountains, so I phoned and ask, can I come over on a bike, and he said yes. There we go - my plan was clear now.
Day 2
Hurricane and rain outside in Opole, so I phoned my friend and told him I will go next day. In the afternoon it was sunny again so I just drove around the local villages.
Day 3
Cloudy, but no rain. So let's go. Motorway to Katowice, then to Cracow it was a toll road, a rubbish one, because you pay to be stuck in a traffic jam, cause of the roadworks every 10 km, a total nonsense, but Poland is a total nonsense kind of place. Good that my Burgman could easily go through traffic jams in between cars. Then the landscape slowly started to change after I left Cracow (more hills and mountains). And finally I reached Bieszczady and my friend waiting for me near his house around 4pm. We went for a walk to the forest. It was good to be there. I havent been to Bieszczady for years.
Day 4
Rain again - shit weather in this country comparing to Spain. But we decided to go for a little trip anyway. First stop - abandoned house in the forest and a railway tunnel. Both nice film locations and both scary. I wonder how these places would look at night. The house is supposed to be haunted, we went inside and I made a little video and some pictures. It was empty, a bit scary, but I didn't feel anything unusual about it. Then the tunnel - we walked to the other side. It was long. It took us good few minutes to walk through and I forgot a torch so I didn't really see where I'm going. The train passes through the tunnel twice a day, so it's unlikely you come across one, and still the tunnel is wide, so it is possible to dodge the incoming train :-) Interesting experience.
At the other side it was Slovakia - another country. We looked around and came back to the bikes. Driving the Burgman in rain is not a great experience. But before coming back home we decided to go to Slovakia to Tesco and get some beer. Not some long time ago polish people were going to Slovakia because it was cheaper. Now they have Euro and Slovakian people are coming to Poland for shopping.
Day 4
I decided to go, cause the weather was getting better. Time to visit some family in another beautiful region of Poland called Roztocze. I left Bieszczady and drove to Przemysl, and then through some little villages to Tomaszow Lubelski. I visited all the cousins and grandparents. I haven't seen them for ages so it was nice to be there. Kunki is a little farm village where I spent every summer when I was a kid. This place brought back some memories as always.
Day 5
It was time to come back to Warsaw. My grandmother wanted to give me lots of food... but I didn't have space in the bike at all... Weather as always in Poland - shit. Rain and wind half of my day made driving difficult and not so pleasant. But my new tires did a good job. Nothing much to report from that day - I was driving all day and I reached Warsaw. During those 5 days I made about 1100km on my Burgman. I didn't go to Spain but I guess it wasn't a right time to do this. Maybe next year.