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ACTC January 1 General Meeting

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Carl Stoffel will entertain us with photos of his off-road adventure of the Great Divide

from Canada to New Mexico.

Agenda: 7:00pm Speaker 8:00pm General Meeting

Place: First Congregational Church

Leigh & Hamilton, San Jose

Tuesday October 3, 2006, 7:00pm, First Congregational Church, Leigh and Hamilton

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Ah, France by bike. Fantastic food, great

wine, traf c-free back roads, charming coun-

try hotels. Not to mention rain, fog, zero vis-

ibility, wet pavement. Yep, we had it all on our

Bicycle Adventure Club “Vines, Gorges and

France 2007: Wet And Wonderful

Causses of Southern France” tour in Septem-

ber and October 2007.

Looking back through the haze and drizzle,

I remember some really outstanding days.

Like when the sun came out on our very rst

day, accompanying us from the outskirts of

bustling Toulouse to the Gaillac wine country.

(If only we could get that really good, really

cheap Gaillac wine here!)

On our second day, we started out in a

thick brouillard, fog that rises from saturated

ground, which hung over the quaint village

of Castlenaud de Montmiral during our

brief visit. By the time we’d scaled the hills

to Cordes-sur-Ciel, it had totally burned off,

leaving us clear skies under which to eat lunch

and marvel at the views of the Valley of the

Tarn.

The next day we followed the sunny, well-

marked VeloRoute du Tarn along a smooth

one-lane river road. We stopped to pick gs

Ralph and Jennifer Durham of Sunnyvale cruise through the Gorges of the Tarn

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