January 24, 2023
The route through Provence
Not long ago we were discussing with Susan a possible tour through the Luberons she’s been considering, and this photograph came up:
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It reminded me that I never completed the second half of this journal because after we returned from Corsica I quit maintaining one for the usual reasons. I’ve still got the photos stored away back in Portland though, and I vowed to myself I’d dig them up when we return and add them to the journal together with any memories Rachael and I can scrape up. It was an event-filled, memorable week that we think back on often - the heat wave, the lavender, our first visit to Roussillon, and crossing paths with a stage of the Tour de France are highlights that instantly come to mind - but we should put down what we can still bring back before those memories fade even further.
In the meantime, I tried to recreate just the itinerary. I was surprised at how much of a challenge it was, but I think I’ve got it. Might as well post it now before it gets away again, as the first installment. Here’s where we went:
July 01: Nice, by ferry from Ajaccio
July 02: Aiglun
July 03: Rougon
July 04: moustiers-Sainte-Marie
July 06: Forcalquier, or possibly Manosque
July 07: Sault
July 08: Vaison-la-Romiane
July 09: layover day, bike to Orange
July 10: L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
July 11: Bonnieux
July 12: Cucuron
July 13: Tourtour
July 14: Seillans
July 15: Le Bar-sur-Loup
July 16: Nice
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The heat, even for those of us who had been riding in and were accustomed to the steaming, sweltering mid-summer heat and humidity of the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. East coast, was brutal and made worse by the general lack of air conditioning in French buildings. Something like 15,000 people were killed in that heat wave if I remember correctly.
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