So, exceeding all expectations we’re back for Act III.  We’re starting our seventh month, having blown past our previously longest unbroken tour: last year’s five month journey from Minneapolis to Rome.  We didn’t really know if we’d make it this far last winter when we started planning this tour, and only bought ourselves a one way flight to Barcelona at first to keep our options open.  I forget now when it was that we committed ourselves to the whole vision and bought tickets for Nice for the flight home; oh, well I do know of course, because we have the email with our ticket confirmation and it’s in the journal: May 29th, back in Joigny when we discovered we could get a bargain rate on a flight home if we acted fast.

There have been some changes to our original plan for this season in France since we posted the original vision, mostly because we decided we wanted to maximize the time we’d spend in the southern gorges - the Dordogne, the Lot, the Tarn and around.  The plan now is to start with about two weeks in Brittany and then take the TGV to Angouleme for the start of a month spent slowly meandering through the gorges, ending in Florac.  We’ve booked our lodging through to there but beyond that we’re waiting until it gets closer and we see what’s happening with the autumn weather and our enthusiasm for cycling.  Stranger things have happened than to find us holed up somewhere on the Mediterranean coast loafing around and staring at the sea for that last month!

So here’s the plan for stage one: Roscoff to Saint-Malo:

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