For our last night in Paris, we picked an airbnb place close to the storage lockers so we could assemble our bikes in anticipation of riding out early in the morn. Our skookum new boxes held up their end of the bargain (minus a few broken buckles) and the bikes were in fine form and ready to assemble. A perk of this assembly was the almost minus temperatures in the underground storage locker, so even when getting frustrated you were cool as a cucumber. Steve nerded out and tested his GoPro— which will hopefully get a lot of use over the next 10 days— you can see his quick ride around the massive storage facility in the clip below. We also had an opportunity to do some routing on the GPS with the TOPO France maps that we bought before we left. Hopefully having topographical maps will allow us to avoid some of the more daunting elevations we might encounter on our 1000km ride south.

So we’ve stowed our steads for the eve and will now rent a few more clunkers (velibs), visit one last park and eat some steak frites to fuel us up for the morning! Waiting for a confirmation back on a charming old stone cottage in Prunay-En-Yvelines roughly 80km south, and it’s off to the races we go!

Thanks for a swell time, Paris…..we will be back. Also, Happy Mothers Day to our awesome moms!