Day after tomorrow, we're off to DC for a month to help the daughter with her new baby.  By the time we get back, it will be time to box up the bikes to ship to France.  Uh-oh!  Not ready!

I've been entering data for the Eurovelo 6 route into a GPS unit.  It's labor-intensive.  The printed map of the route and the electronic map look quite different, so it's confusing to try to transpose the route from the paper map to the GPS.  I'm hoping that the route is well marked.

I've been studying French in preparation for the trip.  I've been slipping on studying for the last few days.  Gotta catch up.

Pornic to Budapest

We're about seven weeks away from a new adventure.  May 1, we leave for France to ride from the Atlantic coast up the Loire valley.  We'll cross into Switzerland briefly.  We'll enter Germany to find the headwaters of the Danube and then follow the Danube east across Germany and into Austria.  We'll visit Vienna and then turn toward Budapest.  This should take about six or seven weeks.  We'll take the train to Amsterdam to see friends and then fly home from there.