Every single Blue Marble bike trip I’ve been on has been scorchingly hot, and this one is no exception. This heat makes ordinary hills seen tougher, but it helps you earn that post-ride beer.
I’m wiped from today’s ride, so here are the highlights: amazing lunch picnic by the river of market goodies and yesterday’s wine purchase, fantastic dip in La Lac de la Cadie, fields full of sunflowers, an ice cold bottle of water at a tiny town on top of a hill, and post-dinner stroll along the river in Ste Foy la Grande, still light at 10pm.
I’ve also been informed by my one of my adopted Aussie brothers that I’d best study up, as the Harry Potter quiz questions start tomorrow. In addition, I proved myself to be a city girl through and through – I couldn’t identify young corn plants as such (my Iowan trip leader thought I was mocking him; I wasn’t) and I thought the sounds I heard along the river were coming from ducks. It was frogs. Alas, I have led a sheltered city life.