June 2 - Reschen Pass to Haiming

After getting ahead of Tracey and Pat on the climb over the alps (they must have taken a wrong turn somewhere) I had checked into a campground very close to the sign marking the high point of the Pass. If you check Pat's blog below you will see that they, very wisely, took a room in the small town a couple of clicks before the pass. Despite the fact that I had the body bag zipped up tight and slept fully clothed it was still a cold night. Next morning I shared some hot soup with my new Dutch friends, Tine and Henk (who I had teamed up with the previous day for dinner and the swapping of travel info) and met my fellow travellers out on the highway and we set sail for warmer climes. Just outside Landeck we separated again with Tracey and Pat taking a room in the town while I sailed on down the Inntal Radweg towards Innsbruck. Around the town of Imst I fell in with a local mountain biker who was heading out for a training ride to Landeck, the opposite direction, but changed his mind and rode with me taking me on some serious shortcuts to avoid towns. Needless to say the shortcuts were more suited to mountain biking rather than a fully loaded touring bike, exhilerating single track riding for a while. The speedo was just closing in on the 100km mark when I stumbled on a really nice economical hotel room in the town of Haiming. The town seems to be the epicenter for Inn River rafting. A seriously tasty meal of swine flesh and a couple of drinks with the manager finished a solid day on the bike.