Dear Robin, Gayle and Claire:

I just want you guys to know that I have my Texas license plate displayed proudly in my rear windshield, and that I've had it that way since I bought it from you on the Galibier in July. 

Thank you for being such gracious hosts and hostesses when I was visiting you guys.  What a great experience!  It was my second Tour, and when the peloton was getting ready to come by, I was just as giddy as if it was my first.  I've got the video on order, and hopefully I'll see some people/things I recognize!

I got some decent video, nothing award-winning, and some decent photographs as well.  I caught Stages 11-15, including Robbie McEwen's sprint finish (just nipping Chris Horner) in Montpelier. 

By strange coincidence, I stayed in the same hotel that Team Discovery Channel did in Montpelier, although my stay was one night before theirs.  I went to Agde and caught the sign-in on the beach of Cap d'Agde, and the toughest stage of the Tour:  Stage 15.  Wow!  I was on the second-to-last climb surrounded by Basques in the Pyrenees.

Well, I hope all your biketexas.org gear is selling well; I display all of mine with pride, I assure you.  I'm getting ready to go to Iraq, and I'm taking care of a lot of loose ends right now.

Hopefully, I will see you at a future Tour de France!  Au revoir....

Greg