En route for Les 24 h du Mans... We slept "rough", à la belle étoile, next to the cars, two nights on the way in the woods, one night sur le circuit, and one night coming back, in a clover field. Picnic lunch on Day-2 in the woods somewhere between Montguyon and Montendre.
Was I the only one who thought to bring an umbrella to France?
We went in 2 cars: Alain and Pierre's 4 CV and their parents' 4L
Top to bottom: Paula Burtis, Anna Kay Ross, Alain Bourg, Robert Dahlstet, Jean-Pierre de Barbeyrac de St Maurice, Pierre Bourg, Jean-Pierre le noir (John Dennis)
The start of something big!
The start of something else big!
Picnic... in the woods again, the next day on the way back to Pau. Just the four of us, AK, Alain, Candi and Robert. The other car had gone on ahead.
I'm not sure, but I think both Candi and I are holding bottles of vin ordinaire (1 F le litre)
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
ReplyDeleteA Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse--and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Wow, you guys were so adventurous. It never would have occurred to me to actually sleep outside in the woods! What fun!
ReplyDeleteLes grands ésprits se rencontrent, Robert. I had that on the tip of my tongue as I was posting the photo (well, sort of. All I could remember was the loaf of bread, the wine and "thee". I don't remember that we had any books of verse along, but the rest fits :-))
ReplyDeleteRobin, it probably wouldn't have occurred to us to sleep out under the stars either. I'll have to post my memories of that trip and see if Robert and Candi's are the same.
I wasn't part of your group....I was family left behind in California. When Anna Kay returned home after a year in France, I looked at these pictures SO MANY TIMES I almost think I was there. I LOVED Anna Kays pictures in 1969 and I LOVE them now!!!!
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