Friday, June 19, 2015

Jairvan!

...or so I'm told is how the locals refer to the GR20.

The next adventure is to the island of Corsica off the coast of France.  Some time ago a piece of the Alps broke off from Europe and has been floating away ever since.  Along it's journey at sea, cheese and sausages were made, a French soldier invented the "short man complex" and a trail across it's spine was established.

Unlike my previous international travels, this trip over the pond will involve good and old friends alike meeting me along the way.

Aside from the most convoluted travel itinerary I've pieced together and a duffel of new untested camping gear that will inevitable be called upon to save my bacon, the normal anxiety is starting to seep in.

I leave a week from today and will do my best to share pictures along the way.  Here're a few I pulled from the web of the GR20.  





 Makes me wonder what pictures Europeans have of us that make them exclaim, "Americans!"