Start of a Long Road Trip

Today we would spend no time on long boring highways. The closest we got to that was this 4 lane road leaving Guerande. All day long we were blessed with very little traffic. Unlike Americans, Europeans don't go out joyriding on a Sunday. Instead they like to take long walks. (Note that my GPS was still not working. I could only charge it in my hotel room. The cigarette lighter in our rental car was kaput).

Day Ten - Looking for Troglodytes but Nothing is Open on Sunday

December 30th 2012
Since checking into this wonderful little hotel the very attentive hosts had asked us on numerous occasions whether we wanted to take breakfast in the morning (for an extra charge). We kept telling them "no, merci", but they just smiled and said we could change our mind in the morning. We didn't. At this point in our journey I had decided we were getting maybe a little too crazy with our money ... read more

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