September19
I am in the small French town of Ille-sur-Têt to pick up my new bike from Caminade!
I rode the new bike for an hour and it is AMAZE






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I took it down some singletrack and it can go so fast and soak up so much. If I was in Germany the police would have pulled me over for smiling too much.
The titanium frame is custom built for me and the geometry feels superb. My Tout Terrain bike feels like a tank, it can go anywhere and do anything. The Camiade bike is insanely light, built to go fast, and the responsiveness makes you feel like you are driving a Ferrari. I can’t wait to spend more time on it! I am always surprised by how much geometry changes how a bike feels.
I am riding it back to Bordeaux over the next 7 days.
The first few days will be random routes Northwest, and then I will follow the Canal Midi and Canal Garrone the entire way back home. I am hoping for no headwind and rain, but prepared for both
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Flamingos!

On the train ride down you go by a beautiful estuary off the Mediterranean. I saw hundreds of flamingos just chilling. It makes me so happy to see them. I think they are a beautiful weird bird and I never imagined living in the same place as them.
I visited the Tulsa zoo when I was growing up in Arkansas and the flamingos always mesmerized me. They seemed so exotic. I never considered that I might one day live where they live. I don’t think I could even have thought such a thought, it just wasn’t possible in my head at the time.
Fun fact… the collective noun to describe a gathering of flamingos is “flamboyance”, so you would describe what I saw as a flamboyance of flamingos. I pray to Allah that there is a fantastically gay Miami night club with the same name…
(And peacocks as well, where do they live Wikipedia?)
What was for dinner?
6 eggs, a can of Garbonzo eggs, an onion, and some butter as I don’t have olive oil. Plus, an apple, cheese, and small chunk of a baugette as an appetizer. I bought 6 local eggs and couldn’t bring myself to not eat them… what does that say about me? I’m not sure, but they were delicious.
Note to self…
- You forgot 1 pair of socks…
- The new 22l bags feel much smaller then what I have at home… double check those numbers.
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