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We wanted to share this leg of the journey here as well. Here's the summary of our second day walking straight through Lithuania.

The keyword of the day is definitely water. It was in front of us, behind us, on the sides, above, and below. An unexpected field lake for the appetizer, dozens and dozens of ditches for the main course, and a couple more rivers for dessert. When we didn't have to wade through water, it rained down from above and temporarily even flew from right to left. The cherry on top was a proper Lithuanian hail storm added which made the already hard day even more brutal. The weather on the second day showed absolutely no mercy.

On the second day, we also got to walk through the first residential yards, and that continues to make our hearts beat much faster. There's always this feeling that you're running out of oxygen and the Earth is about to stop spinning, because these are places where our fate is in someone else's hands. The rest of the obstacles are mostly a matter of preparation, endurance, or sheer recklessness, but private land can end our mission instantly no matter how well-prepared we are. And when you've been intensely planning something for four months, sinking a heap of money and time into it, you'd want to keep the situation under your control... but straight-line missions just don't work that way.

The river crossing went by the logic of: if it looks stupid but it works, it ain't stupid. We did get our bottoms wet thanks to a very small rubber boat, but at least neither of us fell completely in. In Lithuania, we learned our lesson to keep the maximum daily route length to within 20 kilometres. Even if there are a lot of fields, they are accompanied by ditches and rivers, and crossing them really drags down the pace.

The final stretch went through the forest, and despite everything, we happily made it to the campsite, ready for a new day to arrive. If you want to see how we got through all these trials, the video is up on our YouTube channel named TOMITI.