France ride: Room for chance

( If you have not read the prologue, start here ) For the first of my four weeks in France, I chose Amboise, a small town on the Loire. It sits roughly in the middle of the country, about three hours from Paris by rental car. Sacha, my retired former boss who lives in Switzerland, joined me there and spent a few days with me. Living with someone for the first time is a fresh sequence of…