12. The Lion Mountains
(Day 114-125, 8.704km cycled) You Break, you Lose Small raindrops from the slight drizzle of rain are hitting my skin. The city is already awake and vibrating with cars, bikes, trucks and people that are making their way to the market. I am still in Kindia, the bustling, Guinean mountain-top city where a day prior my broken rear rack had been blatantly copied and built anew for my old one was unfixable. Today it was time to leave the town and continue cycling. A quick swerve here, avoiding the sun-glass seller, another swerve around an obese 50 year old woman, clothed in wonderful bright wax linen, carrying a stool and a small table on her head and in her hands, two giant bags of what I imagine are vegetables from her village. Casually, I swerve again, out of the way of a giant truck that is rolling backwards down the hill on the crowded main road leading out of town. The truck nearly misses me. Although dangerous, by now, trucks don't scare or intimidate me anymore. If