Le Canal de Bourgogne: Seattle to St Jean-de-Losne

August 2 - Seattle to Paris

After a hectic week getting ready to return to France after missing a year due to medical issues,we are ready. Our neighbor drove us to a nearby light rail station  to catch a train to SeaTac airport for our flight to Paris. Arrived at the station and walked directly onto the train. At SeaTac the new baggage checking took well under 10 minutes, and finally using SpotSaver for TSA we were all checked in and ready to wait in no time at all

August 3 Paris

Dinner at a street side cafe

Caught a cab to our hotel, found a nice restaurant with outdoor seating and returned to our room for a shower and ready for bed

August 4 Paris - Saint Jean-de-Losne

Got up at 05:00 to take advantage of a cheap fare on the 6:50 train from Paris Gare du Lyon to Dijon, with a few minutes to change trains in Dijon to the local RER to Saint Jean-de-Losne. Somehow Michael got his wires crossed about having a taxi meet us at the train station. Fortunately it was a beautiful morning, so we set off on a nice mile walk to the boat, with all our luggage. Along the way a very nice lady pulled over and offered us a ride (not sure where the French ever get the reputation of being less friendly).

Winter had not been very nice to Juniper. Do to medical issues we had missed using her last fall, as did our partners that had the first shift this year, in addition to the six months she sat by herself for the winter. She had been moored under a tree and had dead rotting leaves on her decks as well as tucked into every crevice possible. Plus nearly a year's worth of dust and dirt. Inside, the spiders had taken care of decorating the walls, cabin tops etc with their poop. We were going to have our work cut out for us