Wind Wind Wind

We left Montpellier yesterday morning with Dalia and her daughter, Adalia riding along with us for part of the journey. Adalia is only 11years old and she rode 22miles with us!!! She did fabulous!!! They wanted to see what it was like to travel via the bicycle and they certainly got a taste of it. We usually get lost at least once a day but in the 22 miles that they rode with us we went in more circles and did more back tracking than is usual. But they were troopers and stuck with it. We said our goodbyes at 3pm that day and then set our sights on St. Gilles.

We contiunues to struggle with both the winds and poor maps. Getting lost more times than we care to even mention. But we finally made it to our destination at 7:30 that night. A very long day but it was also some of the more beautiful roads that we had been on. We were on many very small country roads that wove in and around the vinyards. And despite the winds the skies were beautiful blue and we enjoyed the journey.

We met a lovely cycling couple from Holland that were staying in the same campground. They shared there amazing maps with us!! So when we woke up yesterday morning we new exactly where we were going and more importantly how to get there. The winds were once again blowing in from the North at about 30MPH and since we were heading due North it was another long day in the saddle. 45miles to Avginon!

Today we are headed towards Lyon. It will take us a few days to get there especially with the winds which blew ALL night and are extimated to be 30-40MPH today. We really would like to make it to Switzerland by early next week so we are just going to trudge on and hopefully the winds will not continue for too many more days.

Our Holland friends, Ben & Cory are showing Bob the map for the route to Lyon. I know se have said this before but Hollanders are very nice people, extremely well educated, most speak several languages, and they have the BEST cycling maps!!!

More pictures should be coming soon.

Bob & Sherry