The Tunnel
I’ve posted about the Swim, and the Ravine. Then, there’s the Tunnel.
At some point when I was preparing for this trek I was in a popular FB group devoted to the VF. One of the often asked questions was some form of ‘How long does it take to finish the entire trek?’
I became curious. I looked in to various routes: the official, the historical, the direct.
I opted for the most direct route that also followed closely the historical route. We always stay in some location on the historical route. I think.
Consequently, we’ve opted to cut distances by swimming, or climbing down, then up.
We came to a one way tunnel for cars. The sign clearly said ‘No bicycles.’ Nothing abt pedestrians. So….
We knew cars could only go one way at a time, and there would be a lag from the time the last car went one way and the other cars started coming.
If we timed it well, and ran fast enough we’d make it. Maybe. The tunnel was only a couple of miles, give or take. And we could save some distance and time. Maybe.
We saw a truck come through pulling a boat. If we had been in the tunnel at the same time, it would have been all over except cleaning up the mess.
There were indents in the walls in the tunnel for who knows why. They were spaced every couple of hundred meters. And they were big enough to hide in and avoid being squished. If we got to them in time.
I am writing this. We made it. Duh. But, of all the short cuts we created, this one we would NOT do again. In addition to being squished, we had the real threat of someone calling the police. Ppl like to squeal on others. Who knows why?
All this corner cutting created a problem I didn’t see coming.
Not only the corner cutting, we are also going faster than I planned. We are not trying to go fast or far. It happens.
We’re going to get done earlier than planned. Much earlier. I will have 2 extra weeks to spend in Rome. What to do with this time is something I am thinking on now.
If you had 2 extra weeks in Rome, what would you do?
