This is the first time I've gone far enough, because I've never been more than 50km before. That day was a few days ago. I started preparing my bike and my friend started fixing them. Setting up my bike to be a touring bike even though not as good as others have. I'm not a man rich enough to make it a really decent touring bike I want.

I started from some articles on the internet as a reference of my trip this time. Listening to the stories of great people who are on his bike long enough without complaints. At 5 o'clock I was already taking a bath, it's very unusual for me to bathe above 7 am. Back to check on my bike, bag and some of the more important tools and medical supplies. This time I set out with two of my friends, Hamdi and Hana. The purpose of our trip this time is Hana's house in Bogor, he just mentioned Bogor without the last position.

At 5.45 we had gathered on campus, a bit of breafing and we started the journey with prayer. Hana, Hamdi and then I was the back for things that are not desirable. We start from Mardani Raya street, Central Jakarta passes the small road to Archichi then proceeds to Rawamangun. The journey continues towards Cawang, here we pause for a photo and decide where to eat breakfast. The air is still quite cool, very comfortable to go biking.

At 7.15 we arrive at the Rebo market flyover, this is our target before breakfast that morning. After breakfast, we went down almost non-stop over the edge of depok city then we arrived at Cibinong. I'm so glad we got here, we'll be in Bogor soon. I took them to the Pakansari Stadium, took a long photo and then went to Bogor. The weather was very hot, it was very hot.

We keep pedaling until we reach the new crossroads, left, right toward Dramaga straight to Bogor. Up here we stopped, Hana showed google maps and I was shocked. I just know, our destination is south of Bogor and we have to climb later. It's been half way, I can not back down and we'll definitely get to our destination. Long story short, we turn right and start to really feel the direction up and down toward IPB.

Here, Hamdi is getting tired of vomiting. We took a break at the young coconut ice shop which turned out to be very cheap only Rp 3,000 per glass. Our journey is faster and the next climb will be heavier than ever. After the fork in the direction of Mount Halimun Salak, the road is really uphill. At a gas station, we pause for dhuhur prayer and rest. However we had to wait 2 hours for further as the rain suddenly went down quite swiftly.

The day began to hurt, we went down the trip to Nanggung-Bogor which if viewed from the map is still 25km. Very few derivative bonuses here, on average the streets rise to Hamdi's halt to take a breather. The state of the streets is still the same after our place of prayer ashar in the mosque, the area is quite beautiful with plants that very much compared to Jakarta. It is difficult to arrange the state of the road, which they must guide the bike because they can not afford to pedal up to the top.

We were very close and less than 2 km to the end Hamdi bike leaked and must be replaced tires. We are lucky there are still open workshops and have used tires. Wait half an hour, we have trouble
sleeping. Very close, I saw the happy face of Hana. Past the suspension bridge, we also arrived at the house we were headed from the morning. Nanggung-Bogor, very tempting to be subdued. We finished praying maghrib then went to dinner. So beautiful is this meaningful journey, but there is nothing in vain behind the smile of those who are happy.

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