My initial plan had been to go west from Akhaltsikhe over the mountains to Batumi by the Turkish border. However, the German guys I met in Armenia had biked this road and needed to get a ride for 60k because it was horrible - according to the locals "the worst road in Georgia". I was not going to risk this with my fragile wheel so instead, I went northeast towards Kashuri all the way rolling downhill along the river...