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Updated from http://www.RideDOT.com/rtw/371.html We depart from the ferry docks in Marseille early in the morning. It's going to be a long day on the waters as we head south. On board the ferry, lashing the bikes to the railing in case of inclement weather Over 11 boring hours later, we...

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I think this is why we loved teaching so much. Although riding is still fun for us, after so many years you sometimes forget how exhilarating it was the very first time you were zooming around on a motorcycle. Teaching other people and seeing the joy on their faces kinda brings you back to that...

This is a recent picture: :smiley_drive:

Speaking of which, we have an important decision to make: Where are we going to go now? Although we are in Marseille to visit Y&H, I've routed us to this port town at the very south of France because it's a hub for all the ferries heading out of Europe. I want us to go to Tunisia! It's just...

Not the same outfit. Ferrari is a pretty popular name in Italy One of the museum's curators gives us a little explanation of some of the bikes on the floor It was entirely in French. Yaw and I nodded our heads pretending to understand. Neda didn't bother pretending at all. Hélène, who is...

We move onto the Italian motorcycle section. I *LOVE* Italian bikes. Especially the ones that look sexy and go fast... and break down all the time while looking sexy and not going fast nor moving under their own power any longer Please sir, I want some more Ducatis. In the museum's courtyard...

Old motorcycles dials and gauges, dusty and yellowed with time These tiny figurines remind me of a cartoon I used to read When I first started riding, I couldn't get enough of motorcycles. I rode all the time. And when I wasn't riding, I'd visit motorcycle forums to chat about riding and...

I am in love with how deep turquoise the sea is You know, Marseille is still not a pretty place. But we're warming up to it a little bit. I've realized that it's not just the buildings and parks, the activities, food and the culture that determine whether a place is nice to visit or live in...

Half moon Full moon Europeans are so casual about nudity. That's very cool. I'd be casual about it too if I wasn't coming off a two-month diet of Fish'n Chips and Cornish Pasties. Yeah, that's the *only* reason why I'm not walking around butt-nekkid. Hélène organized the hiking route. She's...

Picture by Yaw's camera, which was sitting on a rock with the timer on The weather was beautiful, but so was the scenery, and the waters were so breathtakingly blue! Don't get me wrong. I still don't like hiking. The hiking got a bit strenuous. I found that to conserve my energy, I had to...

We were originally only going to stay a couple of nights here, just to catch up with them. They invited us to stay with them in their cool loft apartment, but shortly after arriving, the travel fatigue hit us in such a big way that I think we're going to find a longer-term apartment in town to...

Really, we are in town for a couple of reasons: Yaw and Hélène from Seattle are now Yaw and Hélène, Nomadic Citizens of the World! Although we last saw them when we rode down the west coast of the US in Sept 2012, we've kept in close touch online. So many things have happened since then. 1)...

Updated from http://www.RideDOT.com/rtw/370.html Marseille is not the prettiest city in the French Riviera. Not by a long shot. Our impressions of it are from when we rode through it a couple of years ago, on our way to spend the winter in Barcelona. Although we tried to visit and see the...

We're just motoring down the Autoroute in France, hightailing it to the southern coast of France. Along the way, we stop at the Pilat Regional National Park to set up camp. Neda prepares for us a healthy lunch. Eating healthy starts right now! For real. Seriously. Thomas and Eva gave us...

Colleen found a great Alsatian restaurant in this French town. All of our good intentions about eating healthily go out the fenêtre. Om nom nom, so yummy! Alsatian Cuisine is basically a lot of pork, done up German style. It's so good to see her again. We've only met her a couple of times, but...

And then back down the mountain. We have a date for this evening! Sun is setting so early these days. It's not even 5PM! Find a spot to park in downtown Mulhouse We're meeting up with our motorcycle friend, Colleen! She is riding up from Basel to see us. She is not only a motorcycle friend...

I'm happy because it's a *short* hike The observatory looks like "Rover" from the TV Show "The Prisoner". LOL! I just found out it's actually not an observatory, it's an air-traffic control tower. The round globe looks like a Grand Balloon, which is what we initially thought the mountain was...

Cows watch us on our day ride through the Grand Ballon mountains, 15 minutes outside of Mulhouse Switchback! Grand Ballon in French means a round-topped mountain. There's an observatory at the top of the summit of the Ballon. We go for a short hike near the summit, you can see all the twisty...

After a too-short weekend with our friends, two lone bikers exit a garage in Leuven, back out onto the European roadways Keep right. Keep right. Keep right. Winter is coming. So like single-celled organisms that respond to stimuli, we instinctively head south, away from the impending cold. But...