Tour de France!

Regardless of what you think of the state of cycling, the tour de france is a spectacle worth seeing.  So when they announced that the route would come right by our house and ride up some of my lunchtime ride territory, I knew I had to go watch it.  I started planning a long time ago and formulated a way that I could watch them twice!  The first would be on the climb out of Quiax, and then on the descent from Sarcenas.  After dropping Gail and the kids off in la Monta so that they could watch the caravan go by, I cycled up via Narbonne and chose a grassy berm from which we could watch them.  A few minutes later, none other than Jeannie Longo and her doper husband showed up and parked just in front of us!

Soon enough, de Marchi flew by, followed by Kadri and some other dude, then the peloton and the grupetto

We watched everyone, and then hopped on our bikes and zoomed up to the col de Vence and watched them go by again.  So cool.