Missing gene

It rained all night, so we woke up quite often from the noise of the rain on the tent. In the morning, we had a short dry window to pack the tent, have breakfast and leave the campground.
Then it started raining again. Today, we didn't even try to find shelter as we knew it would rain most of the day anyways, so no point trying to avoid it. It seems like we are missing a gene that keeps people and animals from leaving their warm shelter when the weather outside is bad 😂
However, we wouldn't get to see this much if we had that gene. We first descended down the volcano on a nice and curvy valley road. After about 40km, we stopped for a coffee and a second breakfast. It didn't rain at this moment and we didn't want to be hungry when we had to climb up a mountain in the rain again (which we already saw ahead of us).
Going uphill was quite tough, heavy rain and all rain clothes on with an elevation gain of 9-10%. We felt like in a glasshouse. At the top, it had cleared up a little, but it was still raining during the descent. So we were really cold.
BUT good we don't have the "stay-at-home-gene", as we saw a mother bear with her cub walking right next to the road. She disappeared quickly into the woods when she saw us, so unfortunately, we couldn't take a photo. The downhill was fun and we easily rolled into the next valley.
As we were cold, we decided to stay in a guesthouse instead of camping tonight and also found one after a bit of searching. We must have looked pretty miserable. The receptionist brought us a hot tea and one of the other guests invited us for a beer afterwards. When the sun finally came out, we warmed up and could also dry our clothes.Read more