Up nice and early we headed for Castelluccio to find a spot to watch the next stage from. The drive was thru very beautiful countryside and we even saw the trees that form the map of Italy on the hillside.
On the flat plain there were folks parked that were landing after para-gliding. There weren’t any planes taking them up that we could see, so we assume they take off from one on the nearby mountains and catch the updrafts.
We were parked in a fairly large flat area and several team cars joined us to hand out bidons.
Michael Woods, wearing the overall leader’s blue jersey and his team’s distinctive pink helmut was safely near the front of the peloton, along with Nibali.
Since it was a large area near the end of a climb many riders were ditching their bidons – I ended up with my largest haul yet – nine! I actually don’t know what I’m going to do with them all, but I really enjoy collecting them.
After the race had passed we backtracked to the town of Visso where we turned north and picked up the route for the next day’s stage. Visso is one of many towns and villages in the area that were severely damaged in the earthquake of 2016.
We followed the route markers until a bit past the town of Tolentino where we pulled into a nice little flat space on the side of the quiet road – good place to spend the night.
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Great photos 😊
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