Ride Day 32—13 Oct 2005—48260 Recoules D'Aubrac (Nasbinals) to 15300 Murat

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Into every life, a little rain must fall.<span> </span>Shortly after starting out in the chilly morning, we donned our rain pants and booties due to a light rain.<span> </span>While it never got seriously heavy, it was more than light and continued steadily for several hours.<span> </span>The most difficult part of this was the descent from about 1050 M along D13 and D989 into Chaudes-Aigues at about 750 M.<span> </span>Happily, while we were climbing back to the 1000+ M level north of Chaudes-Aigues, the rain lightened…and we even could see our shadows by the time we were on D16.<span> </span>We hadn’t expected such a nice end to the day.</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">As a final point, we left the Lozère Department and entered the Cantal Department</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> just before entering St Urcize</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">.<span> </span>This also meant that we passed from the Languedoc-Roussillon Region to the Auvergne Region</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Great low traffic roads.</span>

Background:<br /><br /><br />My wife and I have been doing self-supported tours in Western Europe (a majority in France) since 1993.  This series of rides covers our 2005 2 month route through parts of France.  Our beginning and ending point is near Chaduri (south of Angoulême) where our friends have a farm with Gites and Chambres d'Hotes.<br /><br /><br />We rode our Dawes touring bicycles purchased in 1993 heavily loaded with 700Cx32 tires.  All of our riding was on paved roads, mostly with very little traffic.<br /><br /><br />If any questions, feel free to email me at jeffkadet@netdiving.com<br /><br /><br />Jeff