Skoll: The three Monkeyteers

Driving through the fields and valleys of France reminded me of D'Artagnan and the three musketeers - riding across the country on a quest to save the king. So are we on a quest - a quest to see the only wild monkies in Europe.

Today it was proved that my Monkey is the slowest one. On even ground Lightning is doing ok, but up hill it's clearly slower than the other Monkies. My previous theory about the dragging front brake didn't hold. Our new semi-educated guess is the carburator. There's one thing that supports this theory. Today we changed the spark plugs. After 60 km I compared mine and Bob's. Bob's was practically clean while mine was already completely black. None of us has any experience about adjusting carburators but how hard can it be? Well, we'll see.

As we hoped, France has indeed been a lot faster to drive than Holland and Belgium were. We had our longest driving day today - 390 km and thanks to the straight roads we got closer to Gibraltar about 300 km. With this speed we should be in Spain in two days.

The downside of the good roads is that we are not the only ones driving them. The last 130 km today were interesting to say the least. At Chartres we took N10 to Tours. The road was crowded by trucks. Some of them passed us with less than half a meter between them and our bikes. Luckily we are all still alive.

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