The Route…
The route was planned so that we would head directly south of Paris to Etampes using the N20 (National route) to move us out of the Paris area as quickly as possible.
See here for the complete travel circuit : http://maps.google.com/maps/
From Etampes on (30 miles outside of Paris), we planned to travel on District Roads all the rest of the way. Ray and I knew from our previous trip that doing this takes us about 2.5 times longer to get anywhere but the benefit is that you travel on great country roads and see a lot of sights; which is the point of traveling on a motorcycle. For comparison, a trip on an Auto-Route that would normally take 2 hours would take us 5 hours using D-route roads. When we averaged out all our trip distances per day, we traveled on an average of about 25 miles in one hour of being on the road even though we were usually traveling around 50 mph when on the D-roads. These roads take you through a lot of small villages where the speed drops down to under 30 so time is lost but interesting sights abound. This travel plan is exactly what Roy and I liked to do and we enjoyed the pace. We usually got up each morning around 7:30 to 8:00 am and had breakfast. We were on the road by 9:00 am. At around 3 pm each day we were done for the day and headed to a gas stop to top off our tanks and pick up our evening meals.
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