Ruth: We are back on Faial for three days before we go home on Monday. Reunited with our bikes, we headed out with them this morning, climbing halfway to the caldera before we took a forestry road that traverses the flank of the mountain at 500 meters. We choose our road of descent carefully to place us at the bakery in Cedros on the north side of the island for a tasty treat before winding our way back to Horta. My back seems to be cooperating again and has forgiven me for some of the hard days I put it through hiking on São Jorge.
