HOPE

              I WENT TO A LECTURE AT THE WOODS HOLE LIBRARY ABOUT TWO RECENT FALMOUTH PRIVATE SCHOOL GRADUATES WHO TRAVELED AROUND FRANCE FOR TWO MONTHS BY BICYCLE THE SEPTEMBER AFTER THEY GRADUATED INSTEAD OF GOING TO COLLEGE.  THE TWO FALMOUTH FRIENDS STARTED IN PARIS AND ENDED UP IN NICE IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE TWO MONTHS LATER.  THE LECTURER'S BKING COMPANION WAS FLUENT IN FRENCH HAVING SPENT A YEAR ABROAD IN RENNES,FRANCE.  AFTER OARIS AND VERSAILLES,THE TWO BIKERS STAYED WITH HOST FAMILY IN RENNES FOR FIVE DAYS. 
                 GENERALLY THE NOVICE BIKERS WHO USUALLY ONLY BIKED AROUND FALMOUTH SLEPT IN A NORTH FACE TENT EVERY NIGHT IN SOMEONE'S FIELD.  CAMPING SAUVAGE IS QUITE PREVALENT IN FRANCE.  THEY DID STAY IN HOTELS IN SOME OF THE CITIES.  THE TWO PREPPIES ARRIVED EARLY IN THE MOUNTAINS NEAR NICE AND WERE GOING TO TRAVEL UP INTO THE ALPS BUT THE SNOWS IN THE HIGHER ALTITUDES  HAD ALREADY BEGUN IN LATE OCTOBER. 
                   THE MOST AMAZING THING ABOUT THE BIKERS WERE THE BOOKS THEY BROUGHT TO READ:  THE ILLIAD,HAMLET,THE GREAT GATSBY, JOSEPH CONRAD,AND JAMES JOYCE.  IT MADE YOU APPRECIATE A PRIVATE SCHOOL EDUCATION.  THE SLIDES WERE NOT TOURISTY BUT VERY ESOTERIC OF ARCHITECTUAL FEATURES SUCH AS COLUMNS,DOORS,ARCHES AND STEEPLES. 

NOBSKA LIGHT WOODS HOLE

                        THEY WERE INTELLECTUALLY CURIOUS YOUTH.  THE LECTURER SAYS HE RARELY LEAVES WOODS HOLE.  I HOPE HE GOES TO COLLEGE.  HE'S THE TYPE WHO SHOULD BE WELL EDUCATED.  ALTHOUGH HE APPEARS TO DO IT ON HIS OWN.  HE MIGHT AS WELL GET CREDIT FOR IT.
                         PS SACRE BLEU-THEY USED AMERICAN LONG HAUL BIKES NOT PEUGEOUTS OR BIANCHIS LIKE HIS LAST NAME.