Day 72: Home Sweet Home; From
Gachsar To Tehran in Iran
July 11, 2012; Distance
covered today: 117 Km; Total: 6000 Km
It
was difficult to go to sleep last night, knowing that I have only half a day
ride home.
Tehran
is a city of 12 million people. Its pollution and heavy traffic is notorious.
To avoid riding in its heat and smog, I started early. I was on my bike at 6. I
had an easy job to get to Karaj, the last city before Tehran, because it was
all downhill, but from Karaj, I had to ride on a flat road. In Tehran, the
heavy traffic made it really difficult, but I was in high spirit and just kept
going. I had to be extra careful to get home safely though. The traffic was insane.
I
should have probably stopped to take some pictures of the scenery, but I only
wanted to get home. And I was fast. Somewhere close to Tehran a gentleman stopped
me and introduced himself as the former cycling champion in Iran. He wanted to
take me to the federation right away where cycling federation and officials had
a meeting. He insisted so much, but I only wanted to get home, and declined his
invitation.
Finally,
after 70 days of riding through Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Iran,
covering 6000 km, finally, at 11:30 am, I arrived home where my sister, her
husband and my niece welcomed me. Job done! What’s next?
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