tours to blois......

ok, so the tour de france started out the team time trial in tours.....and made its way along the southern sid eof the loire past amboise....and on into blois......and i was so envious i could have burst.......this area of france is so marvelous....for the scenery, the food, the wine.....the ambience.......i have been to lunch in amboise with both of my children on 2 separate trips.......to blois with my parents and brother.....to tours....well......lots of trips to this region.....and i would go again tomorrow if the opportunity popped up.......the last time we were in amboise, our middle school group happened upon the danville high school group out on their own daytrip from paris......now that is a small world.......but i digress from the tour de france.......the American Dave Zabriskie crashed just a minute shy of the finish...and not only failed to finish with his team....a no-no in a time trial, he lost enough personal time to lose the yellow jersey....he is now dropped down to #9....still mighty good for his first every tour de france.....but far lower than he would have been had he not crashed......i felt so sorry for him as he finished alone.....and bloody, in his torn jersey and shorts.......and so lance is now in the yellow.......but the road to paris is a long and tortuous one....lots can happen between now and july 24........