Notes from the trip from home to Bordeaux….
Flying out of Vancouver meant finding our way from Victoria to YVR – this years it’s Scott’s X-Trail, which we load up, take over to YVR Park and Fly, drop the bikes and panniers at YVR overnight storage then SkyTrain it out towards Metrotown to meet up with Scott’s brother.
The better part of the night in a pub, crash for the night and back to the airport to gather our stuff and check in.
Flights are from Vancouver to Montreal for a layover prior to the flight to Bordeaux…turns out our first flight is delayed an hour, which gives us plenty of time for breakfast before wheels-up!
Flights are noneventful, and we land in Bordeaux around noon on Wednesday.
There are no Trump Walls over here, so immigration is a quick stamp in the passport and we’re off to wait for the bikes to make it through the oversized delivery.
Bikes get built with little drama (I forgot my bike computer; Scott left a connecting bolt at home but we worked around it). And…we’re off!
Almost! We power up the gps’s to find that all my work diligently programming our anticipated routes and destinations was for nought – I created the paths, but saved them into the gps’s in the wrong format (garr!!!) so we leave the airport basically blind, off to find out campsite north of town.
I did run the route on Google Earth a couple of times while plotting it though, so I was…kinda…sorta…confident that I could do it from memory. So off we go, and a couple km down the road Scott calls fro us to stop at a roadside bar for a beer.
Turns out that they not only have beer, but wifi as well! I was able to jump on the internet, redownload our tracks in the correct format and the gps’s bent from being bricks to useful toys again.
From there, off to the camp…
