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2/20/2005

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20 February ’05, Sunday. A French Village on The French Riviera
This morning we found ourselves up, showered, breakfast finished, finished our packing and we were heading out for the gate by 9:15am…I believe it is in record time for us.
Yesterday late afternoon I went up to see Rebecca Kaufmann at the front desk of “La Vieille Ferme Campground, to pay our bill so we could possibly get this early start, and what do you know, it worked. Speaking about working…Rebecca was really one of the best host or hostess that we have had in camping this last year, and I just wanted to say “Thank You” one more time for making our stay just that much better…
Last night as I was walking back to “Bumble Bee”, I was called over to the “Morgan” caravan. We had met Jackie and Don Morgan earlier, and had enjoyed their invitation for a glass of wine then. Well, Don thought it might make a good excuse to have another one seeing as how we were leaving in the morning, so we joined them again and had a great time…”Thanks Morgans”, we hope to see you again in England later this year…
Today we hit the coast road heading West as far as la Ciotat (just before Marseille), and then turned north-west, with our destination being the campground at Nimes. Taking the coast road was just as we had expected…winding and twisting. Traveling on a Sunday, we had a lot of bicyclist and sport car enthusiastic (we must have had every Porsche in France go by us) on the roadway…it has to be the twisting road with the outstanding views…WOW !!! It wasn’t long after we got past Cannes that we started to see some real changes in the soil and rock formations. Deep rust colors were the first, and they went right on down to and entered the blue-green waters of the Med…Really spectacular, and then, we started hitting the beaches with the dark gold sand. This continued with changes just about every 20 minutes or so…quite a day. Our plan for the day was to stay off the “Pay” roads, but as it was we still had a couple that we just had to pay out on…France is the worst for this…pay, and then pay again… The truth is, even if you stay off the pay roads, you pay for the extra gas and time. If we were to have taken the pay road all the way to Nimes, we would have most likely made it about 3 hours earlier and with less than half the gas that we had to use on the slower windy roads…pay them now or pay later.
Tomorrow we pull up camp and head to Lyon. We will pay the “troll” of the road…

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