Picture if you will

Picture if you will

After Torino and with healthy bicycles under us we rode our longest day yet of 81 miles to a seriously uphill campground that was terribly hard to find. It was a long hot day. Another interesting aspect of camping on our trip, in the not quite on season, is that pretty much everywhere we have been they have offered hot showers, wifi, stores and restaurants, and other desirable items, but not most of them, not during the not quite on season. Hot showers often, sometimes coffees, almost none of the rest of those desirable services. Then again, we almost always had the camping to ourselves....
The next day, yesterday, we rode up in to the Alpes. It was not, fortunately, quite as intensely difficult or steep as we imagined. It was steep, of course, but luckily not quite as steep as the Giro hill we rode. Though it it was interesting to note that this pass road has also been a Giro stage in the past. We had great weather and a friendly breeze, and it wasn't until we were up over the top and almost the France that a tinkling of rain began. We rode down into the French side and found easy camping not on a hill just in time, after setting up camp and taking hot showers, for the thunderstorm to hit.
This morning we had hot coffees and croissants at our camp. Next, on towards Barcelona.


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