A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Day 9 La Bastide Puylaurent to Les Vans
Stats: 45km, avg 18.9km/hr, max 50.8, 2.5hrs riding time.This was going to be the best day: the payoff for all that climbing, a descent of about 42km, at times gentle but a lot of it was steep though the roads were quite curvy and not the best of tarmac so the max speed wasn't that high.
High Mountains
7.23 It was misty to start the day, very atmospheric through these mountains. It was in this area that Stephenson did his travels with a donkey apparently, the Lozère, part of the Cévannes region in Languedoc-Roussillon.
Rocky curvy cliff thingy
This gives some impression of bits of the next hour, tiny roads curving by cliffs down the quietest valley. So quite in fact that when I stopped I almost felt I should hold my breath.
Vast
There were a few houses dotted about, but largely it seemed an empty bit of the country, very wild. I remember riding through one small hamlet and thinking that it was just medieval, the gap-toothed happy chappy I passed, some guy in his 70s, smiled the biggest smile as I passed - obviously they don't get a lot of flying recumbents in this neck of the woods, I could imagine him trying to tell his mates... I might be the stuff of legend in those parts now ;-)