48 hours after leaving Denver, on Sunday, February 2 at 7:30 am, we arrived at Les Suites du Montana in Tignes where we will spend our first week. We are now fully installed in the hotel. On Sunday morning, we ate breakfast at the hotel that made up for missing lunch and dinner on our arrival Saturday. We showered and got our (free lift tickets—season pass—because we are so old). We felt kind of human but went to sleep right after dinner last night and slept 10 hours.
Our debut en France certainly will be memorable. This is a picture of the rock fall that closed the road to Tignes:
We started out from Lyon for a 3-hour drive at about 1pm. At about midnight we got off the highway at a gas station because we were out of water. The road was actually closed from the time of the rockfall at around 10am but we (all the cars) inched along somehow. At midnight we and all of the cars were at a standstill (and had been for hours at that point). Around the gas station all of the side roads were also jammed with cars—they were trying to get back on the highway. That’s when we decided to take roads in the opposite direction from the rock fall to find a hotel to stay the night. At about 1 am we gave up because all of the hotels étaient complets and decided to sleep in our rental Citroën SUV. We parked in a quiet hotel parking lot and locked the doors. We were so tired from the (very good Air France Business class) flight that even Audre (the bad sleeper of the two of us) slept with the help of Tylenol PM. We woke at about 6 am and saw that the highway to Tignes was empty. We got on and were able to make the last 1 ½ hours to Tignes with only one delay (when the road narrowed to 1 lane). The drive on the curvy mountain road was in the dark (dawn was at 7 am). Luckily, we had a car in front of us to follow.
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