Date:         Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:18:07 -0700
Reply-To:     vw_van_fan_Mark <madvws@COX.NET>
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From:         vw_van_fan_Mark <madvws@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: summer trip report, Europe 2017, part 2
Comments: To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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Yes, there are worries about that but I attached them very securely.

Mark

Stephen Grisanti wrote:
> Looks like California plates. Any worries about them being "liberated" as souvenirs?
>
> Stephen
>
> Mobile
>




>> On Mar 23, 2018, at 12:39 PM, Mark Drillock <modrillock@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>
>> I never finished my report so here is part 2.
>>
>> After touring Croatia and Slovenia I dropped the last nephew at the
>> airport in Milan Italy. Every time I have been near sprawling Milan it
>> has reminded me of the Los Angeles basin in the summer, dreary with smog
>> and heat and this time was no exception. I had a few extra days before I
>> needed to be in Barcelona so I decided to escape into the cooler alps a
>> ways west of Milan, along the Italian/French border. I was hoping to
>> finally see a major mountain stage of the Tour De France bike race in
>> this area later in my trip and this gave me a chance to look at the
>> route and hopefully find a place to camp when I was there for the race.
>>.......