Day 12: L’Alpe d’Huez, France (TdF)
July 20 We made it! The famous 2004 individual time trial stage straight up L’Alpe d’Huez. It’s is referenced to this day as one of the largest crowds ever for a sporting event – they like to say there were one million people on L’Alpe that day. Who knows… We woke up pre-dawn, took one […]
Days 10 & 11: Carcassonne & Grenoble
July 19 and 20 I was told by a friend that we should avoid Carcassonne on our trip. We did avoid staying there – or even really staying too long there – as it’s basically a tourist trap. A really, really cool tourist trap. We went to the city’s famous fort and then pretty much […]