Biking in Southern France

This morning I went to the gym to do my morning exercising. I started off with yoga at 8 and then decided to bike for an hour until my core class at 10. I was just going to do a slow bike while reading but then got distracted the the little touch screen mechanism. Apparently you can do "bike tours" in France. Alright, why not?

I had decided to do an hour bike through Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Roussillion in southern France. Even though it was all on a computer screen, the sights were beautiful and made me feel like I was there. At one point the camera panned past a group of people, some of whom waved and I brought my hand up to wave back but caught myself in time to play it off as a scratch, laughing at myself in the process. I was so enthralled! Facts also popped up on the screen to tell me about the area I was biking in. It was pretty neat.

Now Im sore and that core class is a half hour of death. Hopefully I will get my abs back before I head back down to the USVI.

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