We had some ground to cover from the prior day’s short ride. While mostly following the ViaRhona into Switzerland(!), we needed to rely on Google Maps for a detour into Collonges, the town where Caitlin spent part of her childhood while her dad was at CERN. The first part of the ride out of Seysell […]

We both woke up feeling pretty rough after yesterday’s surprisingly difficult ride to watch the Tour. We decided to sleep in a bit and then bike for as long as we could, which ended up being only 45km.  We biked around Lake Bourget, which was nice, and met up with the Rhone River route (Via […]

The Tour de France race director stated they have “never” attempted a stage as difficult as Stage 9 of this year’s Tour, with three extremely steep, “Beyond Category” climbs. We decided to watch the race just below the summit of the third and final climb on Mont du Chat. We biked up the descent, which […]

Neither of us were looking forward to today’s 90km from La Chambre to Le Bourget-du-Lac (just north of Chambéry). It wasn’t a defined bike route, and since it was a river valley, the Michelin map showed a narrow band of red roads, meaning heavy traffic.  However, we immediately followed a smaller road out of La […]

We decided to try a less-traveled road on our approach to Chambéry, where Stage 9 of the Tour de France will end in two days. We reviewed our extremely helpful Michelin maps and even used Rick’s computer to gauge the elevation profile for the ~70km day. Rick was heading back to the airport today so […]