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After a few kilometers of dirt roads, we hit another beautifully paved backroad.
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Prettier! After Grant gave up on trying to catch a peacock (we were actually rooting for him - we figured if he actually did manage to catch one, we'd be able to get some great shots of him getting the living shit pecked out of him), we hopped in the car and drove westward back to Rethymnon.
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However, Crete is crazy mountainous in the middle and what we figured would be a 45 minute drive, turned into a hour and forty-five minute epic.
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With the Fatty at the wheel, we hit the road.
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Ah! We made it! The elusive southern shore of Crete!
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At one point, we were driving with the windows down laughing and talking and all of sudden a pack of (incredibly loud) motorcyles screamed past us doing well over 130 MPH. I managed to get my camera out in time to catch the tail end of the last rider as he sped past us.
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The road we were traveling ran through the mountainous, northern coastline of the island. Out the left window all we could see were mountains with rows of olive trees haphazardly planted. Out the right window were more scraggly mountains that dropped off right into the sea.