A rainy day

As Sue was putting her bike together,she knew something was wrong.  The front tire would not spin.  After a few minutes, I realized that the disc brake rotor had gotten bent in transport.  Nothing I could do to get it straight.  I finally gave up trying and removed the brake side of it.  She would have to ride without a front brake until a replacement could be found.

Previous experience with Dijon was not good.  It is a maze of one way streets that all point at you.  The night before we left, I did some recognise on the main street that I wanted to take out of town.  There was a bike path along the tram line, so we were good to take my preferred way out.  I had studied each turn on  Google's street view, so I felt like I had been there.  We were out of town in 25 minutes without a wrong turn.

The weather from Dijon to Langres was gloomy with a light rain.  The good news is the wind was from our backs. Our distance for the first day was 53.74 miles pulling heavy trailers, with 2038 feet of climbing.  Not an easy first day. 
When we got into Langres, we stopped in a semi pedestrian zone an one way street to get our bearings.  Getting to this point I noticed two police on bikes.  By the time we realized we had gone too far, the police had caught up with us.  Soi showed them the address of the hotel and asked them where it was.  They told me in French, and I smiled. I pointed to the one way street, so he motioned for us to follow. 

We had a police escort to the hotel.