My Summer Tour

Each summer, while visiting my sisters in Green Bay, I would look forward to join in with them while they watched the Tour de France. Every year they would dutifully watch, while knitting, crocheting and teaching me names of the riders, their favorite announcers, and terms like, peloton, stages, the Yellow Jersey and King of the Mountain.

This year, because of the Olympics in Paris, the tour began in Florence, Italy and traveled through the hills, mountains and even gravel, finally ending in Nice.

What started out as a few doodles, ended up to be a travel sketchbook of sorts. I took photos with my phone while I watched and then went back to draw a few of my favorite scenes of the day.

I love to travel and this was my trip to Italy and France this summer.

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