Tour de France Buzz – Serre Chevalier

Hi Daisy! Writer Chick sent me and I'm glad she did. I like it here. My car is called Sam and I want him to last as long as petrol (gas) does even though he's quite old. My previous car wasn't an arrival point like that for me. I loved it but it wasn't offended when I traded it in. “Glad to be of service,” it said and looked towards its brand new future.

Hilary, thanks so much for visiting. I hope you'll keep coming back! I didn't mention it in my post, however, my car's name is Sela. Sigh. I wasn't sure anyone else named their car?!!

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12.  Fantastic stuff, Josh. This blog gets better and better with each entry.

Your four-point guide revealed to me some inner truth to me about my own writing, in that my penchant for lengthy, dependent-clause-dependent and em-dash-laden sentences — the kind I'm writing right now, with as much ease as a Greg Maddux painting the corners — are in fact not only a form of digression but of procrastination, delaying my arrival at the point of whatever it is I'm saying, and yet prolonging my happiness for imparting this particularly tangential piece of information which reveals my deeper understanding of the topic at hand (poor Cliff can attest to this, having edited some of my Baseball Prospectus 2007 ramblings).

Why hurry to Point B when the meandering road between there and Point A is so damn fun?

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However, in today's cut-throat world of competitive sports – whether it is the Tour de France, or the F1, or athletics and swimming – where one hundredth of a second makes a difference – where wearing a swimming suit of a different material, or tires with a specific compound, or shoes with a specific sole can make or break the race for you – I wonder whether this is sport for men, or sport for technology!]]>

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However, in today's cut-throat world of competitive sports – whether it is the Tour de France, or the F1, or athletics and swimming – where one hundredth of a second makes a difference – where wearing a swimming suit of a different material, or tires with a specific compound, or shoes with a specific sole can make or break the race for you – I wonder whether this is sport for men, or sport for technology!]]>

fast pistesloads of off pistetree runsdecent parkgood nightlife if you look for itHaving done all 4 you mentioned over the last 3 years, I'd go for Serre Chevalier or Chamonix.]]>