Although the Tour is nearly half over, it’s still not too late to introduce you to a friend of ours we’ve made along the way.
Meet Meredith, a Citröen C5 HDi Turbo Diesel 5-speed manual. She gets us to and fro, and doesn’t give us any crap. The GPS is fantastic, always steers us right; and Neal has become accustomed to using the exact coordinates feature; wherein he finds out (from Google Earth on his computer) the exact latitudes and longitudes of our next destination, and plugs in those numbers direct to Meredith. Traffic? She steers us around it. Road closures? New route. You say you’re traveling to a different country? Oh yeah, she follows. She pretty much gets us there every time. And so far, nobody’s GPS on this crew is as good as Meredith’s.
Why is she Meredith? Because she has a British accent and is very proper. I voluntarily gave her a last name of “Farnsworth”, to maker her super-mega British, but it has yet to be adopted. Cars don’t need last names.
And speaking of Brits, we gave Mel a good surprise for her birthday – Al & Bob pretended to do a taped segment for the primetime show, which promptly turned into the Belgian engineers singing Happy Birthday in Flemish. It was quite awesome. Although it’ll never hit air, it was fun to tape.
We stopped on the side of the road just short of our destination to take the obligatory sunflower field photos. I was wondering when we might see them. The hotel we’re staying at is a very nice place, though hard to find, on a lake in a town called St. Ferrouac du Lac; which is a suburb of Revel. What’s even better is that we get to stay for 2 nights. While this means more driving in the morning, it’s much easier after a show.
We arrived a little late for dinner, but they were able to serve us a “couple of things”; which turned into a 3 course meal. Dave and I stayed up until 1am just talking about TV and what not.
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