Distance: 139km
Total: 2959km
It was fairly chilly in the morning, which meant cool tent and quite a bit night humidity on it. It made day's first hours nice to drive. Started the day by following roads along Neckar river 35km to Horb, which meant pretty flat route. There was also good evidence how Germans love their car roads as autobahn went over the river valley on high bridge, quite an example of engineering.
After leaving the river in Horb there was expected uphill, too bad the road kept going up and down the same altitude quite a few times. Most annoying was though that my small road (marked on map (old)) suddenly became autobahn forcing me to find something else. The something else was small village to village road that went to all deep valleys to reach the villages. Things got better when I got on road 28, which was allowed for cyclists and heavily trafficked.
Freudenstadt was built on top of a hill and had huge open area park in the cent rum with fountains on a plaza with children playing in the water. It also offered great break spot in shadow from now extremely hot sun. Right after the town was sharp decline, only to be followed by 15km long uphill, mostly not very steep though. The uphill put me 1000 meters above sea level among the hiking routes and ski resorts. Soon after reaching the top sharp valleys broke up - it was rather moderate terrain on ascend - leading towards Rhein. This also meant downhill as Rhein flows slightly over 100 meters above sea level near Strasbourg. Descend started with 6 kilometers of serpentines and then continued 20 kilometers with slight downhill next to a river. Only thing to slow down the descent were the curves and headwind blowing in the valley. Also managed to get good sounds out of breaks, when cooling them with some water during the descent.
Found campsite in Kehl next to the Rhein after bit playing around as road 28 became autobahn about 20km before Kehl.
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