We're off again for another tour!  

For our fall tour this year, we've picked something close to home.  We've been trying to stay out of airplanes in 2023, and this ride will start and finish in Albi.  That's about a 2 hour drive from our house in Limoux.

Our equipment will be unchanged from our previous tour, with the exception of a new Wahoo computer on Rich's handlebars.  His old, beloved, black and white Wahoo finally became unusable due to the screen de-laminating.  The old Wahoo Elemnt Bolt had accompanied him on his adventures for more than 10 years.  There were some tears shed.   Rich is sometimes sentimental like that...but a new colorful Wahoo Roam V2 arrived in the mail and has now stolen his heart.  Rich is sometimes also fickle like that...

Schnooks is our almost-new Chinook titanium tandem.  We took it out on a successful initial tour back in late May.  We've been riding it on our day rides at home this summer due to a rear wheel problem on our speedy Paketa tandem, and we're finding it pretty much just as speedy as the Paketa.    We're both amazed and excited about this new bike.

The plan is to drive to Albi and spend the first night celebrating Robin's birthday.  Then we'll ride upriver until we arrive in Florac-Trois-Rivières.  From there we'll turn back toward Albi, riding up some river valleys and over some of the "causses" that create the landscape in that part of France.

This tour will have shorter than usual mileage for us.  We're hoping to take more time to gawk and sight-see.  Since we're not camping and cooking for ourselves, we've also had to adjust the days to leave us in places with food options each night.  Also, there were some accommodations that we really wanted to check out along the way.  We're always suckers for a night in a castle, and we're looking forward to a couple of memorable stays!

Everything is booked and we start rolling on September 5th!