Celene and Patrice (Pat) have been extremely helpful! Although Tuesday is the day that school starts, and Celene has to take off time from work to help get two children to two different schools, they suggest that we wait until 9:30 and then Pat will drive us to a trail head to start...that way, we will be where we are supposed to be, and won't be struggling in traffic. Our goal is 70 ksm, about 43 miles, to a small chambre d'hote just north of La Reole. We will be passing through the area known as "between the two seas." An explanation: The river Garonne comes from Spain, and the river Dordoyne from France merge just north of Bordeaux to form one of the largest, if not the largest, estuary in Europe, the Gironde. Usually, the
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