France ride: What photos miss

( If you have not read the prologue, start here ) Throughout this trip, I was always taking photographs. Even when I climbed a 2,600-meter mountain by bike, I carried a camera that weighed nearly a kilogram, and in the end I took about 6,000 pictures. And still, there was so much of France that never made it into them. Some things I simply could not photograph. Others I thought I had captured,…