Feeling Lucky | Cycling France | WEEK 6 PART 1

Leaving Gergy after a day off the bikes, we continue to cycle along the EV 6, stopping for supplies in Chalon-sur Saône, we add to our kit, a handy little item that we love. Weighty but worth it.

The following few days we would need to be flexible and dig deep as we encounter some problems with plans not turning out, bad weather and an uncomfortable sleeping arrangement.

Thanks for tagging along

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Need coffee beautiful morning oh yeah are you this morning the day before my birthday yes it’s all about your birthday you’re kidding it’s not today so don’t worry about it what a lovely lady here we go where are we headed today Rob we’re going to chagne chagy it is very pretty through here

That was a nice lovely campsite I love an adventure I love the excitement of planning it and finding my way I love the challenge of problem solving when our best laid plans go sideways and I love the feeling of pushing myself physically there were days this week that were a little bit of

All of those things things except for this day this day was easy and glorious o o la happy birthday to me it’s a beautiful day and we are attempting to catch a train to par and uh we went up and bought our tickets this morning we

Think so apparently there is not a train these tickets that we bought were bus tickets so now we need to figure out what we’re going to do I think we will be riding somewhere too funny this is not how I envisioned my birthday but I’m in France and I’m

63 and I’m riding up a hill like a 29y old like a 29-year-old follow this way for 1 km my birthday might not have turned out the way we had planned but I know how fortunate I am and I do feel incredibly grateful to be able to do a trip such as

This and be celebrating a birthday in France doing what I love to do it’s got plug in Cool Air ac Wow might need that a storm is blowing in well everything worked up oh my God boming means pissing down rain and trees are blowing all over bomy it is happy birthday oh

Well you’re in a pod a pod thank you take a look at the map oh my goodness we’re challenged how do we find ourselves our way anywhere this last stretch 5 days or whatever is we just haven’t had a really good flow going it’s been just feel like

We’re not making forward progress very well but um yeah our goal is uh Orleans is the next goal but that’s a ways away probably I don’t know 7 days or so anyways hopefully it’s a good day it’s going to be a good day it’s going to be a good day oh this is

Beautiful wind’s picking up uh BC British Columbia so thean aan you’re from winipeg did you say awesome yeah first Canadians we’ve met yeah yeah that was exciting to meet another couple from Canada from Winnipeg heading to the Black Sea e Bulgaria this is very pretty look at this

Wow I hope this lasts forever for the rest of the ride Edwin man two more days of it midle something for a quick picture oh I love it 974 oh I’d say we’d be very lucky to get out of this without getting ready on but then again we are lucky well we’re both

Lucky I’m feeling want you to know I ain’t got much to show mayab slow all into my eyes show until the me my winter i’ got and be you will make itep into your hey baby can you tell I’m not a criminal I want you to stay true to right you

What find your way you look like you got windburn so tomorrow we have lots of options I don’t think it’s supposed to rain tomorrow but we do have a headwind so we have lots of uh bailing options as well lots of campgrounds along the way so we might only do about

30 maybe 35 we did well today that was a struggle it was uh head down keep the pedals going and it’s unfortunate you don’t get to see very much when you’re just concentrating on trying to move forward but some days are like that there we go just leaving the campground

Beautiful lovely Campground really well set up for um cycle tours it is Saturday it was down to 6° last night it was a little bit chilly and tonight supposed to be 4 okay here we go finding a bakery this morning some wow look at this church okay where’s the bakery

Robert going for a bike ride today I’m heading to D cuz that’s looking black ahead isn’t it here we go here okay well see what we can yeah lovely po f so again we got ourselves a I don’t know tent uh it’s almost as cheap as actually

It’s almost as cheap as a campsite and we have power R so we get a lovely view I don’t think this is the LA but maybe it is cuz I know little did we know that our cute little canvas tent was a horror of spiders and home to

Hundreds of some other little bugs that we were praying weren’t bed bugs we didn’t think that’s what these were but out of an abundance of caution we ended up washing most of our clothes leaving us with very little warm clothes to wear on what would be a very chilly night and

We can charge our stuff very cool now it’s time to get ourselves dried off and then we’ll go up to the grocery store get some stuff because the tomorrow’s Sunday so the grocery stores are closed so don’t want to get hungry thousands of these little I don’t

Know ho cow man just everywhere yeah it’s just everywhere look at this like I said don’t think they’re bed bugs oh my God they’re two different things it looks like look at them all over oh my God we’ll just leave it like that hair standing up on the back of my

Neck so I have no socks to wear tonight to bed and it’s supposed to get down to 4° so I’m going to wrap my feet in toilet paper and hopefully nothing’s crawling on us tonight what a nightmare what a day that’ll teach us we should have just

Slept in our tent from the get go I think this is going to work quite well