Ride Day 11—20 Sept 2005—64660 Lurbe-St-Christau to 65310 Odos (Tarbes)

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Today was a beautiful ride with just a few steeper lengthy climbs, most being pretty gentle.<span> </span>Also, with the exception of the roads as we neared Tarbes, we had little traffic.<span> </span>Despite it’s being a “yellow road” on the map, D918 was absolutely perfect.<span> </span>Lovely woods and virtually no traffic along with gentle slopes—really pleasant riding.</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