We repacked our (too heavy) bags and caught a Flixbus, all day, all the way to Vilnius, Lithuania. (FYI Flix drivers wear leprechaun green ties.)
Doug snoozed and read a bit in addition to looking around.
I stared out the window. The countryside looked quite a bit like southern Minnesota or Iowa or even parts of Nebraska: big agricultural fields and good looking soil. An immense amount of it in hay. Some wheat, some oats, lots of late-summer-planted cabbage family I know not what exact crops. For all that hay very very few animals grazing.
From what I later read, I pieced together that the reason there are clusters of farm houses with what I think are huge milking/dairy barns and then all these big fields is because all the lands were in communal farms when Russia ruled the Baltic states. Interesting to think about having the humans and building clustered together and fields around.
(Also have been trying to piece together ownership and land management of agricultural lands when Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania became independent. Seems that there have been various state programs to allow those who were on the land to buy it at some special price. Also seems that the coop managers took personal private ownership of a lot of the big farm machinery/ infrastructure.)
We left Estonia and kept riding through Latvian countryside and into Riga for the bus station, then back on the road to Vilnius.
As our bike rental guy in Helsinki pointed out, Finland (and Estonia and Lativia) do not have highways that are more than four lanes total. Highways are mostly two-lane, and buses pass semis a LOT, which all the drivers kind of slow down to allow. Once you leave the two-lane almost everything is well-packed gravel.
At any rate, we got off the bus and portaged to our Republic of Užupis lodgings (within Vilnius).