I awoke at 5:30AM after getting ~6 hrs. of sleep. Daniel is still snoring as I write this an hour later...
Our Pension is what I am coming to consider typical for the price range (1400CSK ($36)) A ‘doppelzimmer mit zwei bedt und bad‘. The toilet paper has not traveled far from the tree. The shower is a raised quarter circle enclosed in the corner of the ‘bad‘.

Since this Pension did not provide breakfast, We wandered around the area looking for an open restaurant and even got turned down at a nearby hotel because we were not paying guests. The hotel bar did supply us with espresso.

After what passed for breakfast on our first day in the Czech Republic, we began to assemble the bikes. On opening the case I discovered that my front wheel had sustained a bent spoke. After an hour or so we got the bikes together and I tested my bent spoke. It seemed to be OK and the brakes works without the wheel rubbing. Daniel M. showed up around 11AM and we all had lunch in a nearby restaurant. Daniel M commented that it was twice the price of what he was used to paying (The meal for the three of us (including beer) came to 750Kc (~$18).
After lunch, we loaded our gear into Daniel M‘s car (A Skoda Felice - yes Bob Simonds, I got a ride in a Skoda) and with the bikes on top, headed south out of Prague to Tabor. Along the way, we stopped to visit Konopiste, a hunting lodge (Palace really) of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand. While showing us around, Daniel M. recommended a Czech movie ‘My Sweet Little Village‘, shot in a nearby town. It is a movie about life in the small village of Krecovice.

Tabor

We ended the day in Tabor where we found the Pension Malina to be a very basic pension for 700Kc.(~$17.50). It did have a Shower in the room and a third bed but we opted for the common facilities down the hall. Daniel M suggested to Daniel K that he might try to discuss the room negotiations with the Pension manager. He did quite well. I have admired (and envied) Daniel‘s understanding of the Czech language. I really appreciate having Daniel on the trip.
After settling in, we walked into the old restored part of the city for a tour and a meal. Daniel M showed me how to buy a phone card and how to use a pay Phone to call Becky.
One of the things that I learned from Daniel M was about the Chestnut trees in the square. They all have a disease that is affecting all the Chestnut trees in Europe like the one that killed all the Chestnut trees in America.
Not long after Daniel M left, Daniel K and I took a nap. Around 10PM that evening as we were ready to catch up on some serious sleep, we discovered that our room window was adjacent to the street light mounted on the exterior of the building.

I notice that the 220 adapter is working well and so is Jim Turley‘s AA battery adapter. Keeping the Cassiopeia going  that I use to keep this journal doesn‘t appear that it will be the problem that it was last year.