A month in Provence

So it’s been a while since my last post – what else is new :o) Well I’ve all-of-a-sudden found myself with much more free time than I’ve had recently: my job at Trek finished on Feb 28th, so now I’m joining the ranks of the unemployed! Am I worried about that? Well not really – more to come later ;o)

So what’s happened recently? Well the major part of January was spent in Provence helping Trek Travel move into the new warehouse there – check out some of the pics. It’s in a truly stellar location which is quiet and in the country-side, surrounded by absolutely amazing riding in all directions, and close to a few towns and some big cities (within an hour to Avignon – a stellar city).

Unfortunately Kiersten was pretty sick with a fever for the first week we were there – it just happened to coincide with the best week of weather! It was about 20 deg C and uber sunny. Wow. And that was the middle of winter! The blossoms were actually starting to come out on the trees! But being there for work kept us pretty busy setting up the new warehouse – fun work, but still pretty hectic. Things look pretty solid there now for the warehouse, guide house, and office, and we were able to get some good riding in too.

It got dark around 5:30 while we were there – and on one ride we didn’t leave until about 2:30 (yup – not the brightest move on our part :o) We spent about 2 hours climbing up to the top of Col de la Ligne – where we were in snow! From here we planned on dropping down the backside and coming around the shoulder of the Col back to our starting point – but after starting out we quickly realized that plan was a disaster waiting to happen!!! So back we went over the Col de la Ligne and down the front side – bombing along the whole way. Cold fingers and faces wasn’t enough to keep the grins off our faces too, it was such a fun and long downhill. So after an hour we found ourselves in familiar territory and back on the road home – arriving just in time for dusk, with cold fingers and toes. That pretty much sums up our Provence riding :o)