We are in the process of preparing for our return to France.

  • We are looking for places to sleep in between Madrid and Paris (we only need a little corner of land to pitch the tent!). If you can help us out, please follow this link.

  • We already have a couple of conferences lined up along the way. To see the schedule, follow this link. We would be happy to met with you!

We are also looking for an apartment in Paris or the surrounding area, starting in mid-May 2010. Any help or suggestions would be most welcome!

Our first day of biking!

Here we go, we started!

We took our time to get ready (about a week) but this morning we were still missing the gas for our stove!! We packed our bike bags and we left at the beginning of the afternoon.

It was hard to find the right balance with our 60 pounds load! But the habits came back quickly after few feet.

We began by biking through Anchorage on bike routes, for about 4 miles. As we stopped to find our way, a nice couple came to see us and gave us advice on the way to take. After nice bike routes, we road on the sides of large avenue of Anchorage. We do not know what the rules for the bikes over here are, but almost all the people on bikes do the same. We preferred to leave the road to the big four wheel vehicles. We finally found the highway. It was not very nice (this is the only road that we could take!), but by chance, there was a bike routes following it! We went to Eagle River where there should have been 2 campgrounds. We passed the first one and decided to go further. But the second one was not a campground, but an RV park, with no grass for a tent! We did not know what to do: going back to the fist campground? Or keep biking even if we were tired? We were hesitating and a man came to us to ask if we needed any help. We explained him our problem. He advised us to go back to the first campground...

We did not even had biked few feet, that he passed us with his car, parked and came to ask us: "would you like to come to my place for the night?". We were totally amazed by his hospitality! We still cannot believe it! Now I am writing from his place. Our guest's name is Ton and had been backpacking a lot in Europe. Ha told us tonight that he was just giving back the hospitality he received 30 years ago during his trip through Europe! We had a nice shower, a nice dinner with a glass of wine and we are going to sleep in a good bed!

For our first day, we biked 27 miles.

Ps: Thank you Tony for your hospitality! it was nice to meet you! We had a wonderful night at your place! Thank you so much!

[Drapeau de Etats-Unis Sara | Le 10-06-2008 00:10 | Add a comment]

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