Months ago, even before we had embarked on our tour in Portugal and Spain with its sobering finish, we were already making plans for another little ride with friends from CycleBlaze. The occasion was Kathleen Jones' visit to Germany to visit her brother. I know Kathleen from crazyguy days but have never met her in person. Not only were Janos and I looking forward to meeting Kathleen, Susan Carpenter was too. We were lucky that Susan, Kathleen, and Janos and I found a time and place that would work out for all of us for a week together on our bicycles.

The logistics involved finding a starting point that all three of us could access without too much stress. Metz, France, not far from the German border, worked for Susan arriving by train from Paris, it was also convenient for Kathleen taking the train from a small town in Germany's Saarland, and for us it's an easy day's drive. If you have read our last journal, you know we aren't doing multi-day car rides any more.

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Tripoint is one of those words that I discovered while trying to translate the more common word in German Dreiländereck.

A triple border, tripoint, trijunction, triple point, or tri-border area is a geographical point at which the boundaries of three countries or subnational entities meet. ~Wiki

The borders of France, Luxembourg and Germany meet in Schengen, at the end of our ride on the first day.

Update - and then came the rain

That was the plan. In the meantime the weather has been threatening our tour along the Moselle and Saar and there has been heavy flooding in exactly the region where we want to ride our bikes. You might have read the Bartletts' journal here on CycleBlaze. A few days ago the Bartletts were  exactly where we intend to be in less than a week from now - and the bike paths were under water!

We still plan to meet in Metz on May 25, but have cancelled all our bookings along the Moselle and the Saar, the Saar being particularly hard hit. 

We will be playing it by ear now so stay tuned. We will have to see if the bike paths are open and also what turn the weather will take. We don't need more rain!