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France

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-- From 2013/03/06 to 2013/09/dd
-- From Ensenada, MX, to the backoffice, Var, France

Following the destruction of my MAN truck at the time of an accident, to see here, occurred on the road Mex #1, Baja California, Mexico, I returned to France coming from Ensenada, Mexico, San Diego & New York, the USA, Paris then Draguignan, France. Leaved on Tuesday the 5th March at 3 am I arrived at the Estate of Rochilles on Wednesday the 6th around 6 p.m.

“In horse-riding when a horse refuses an obstacle, the rider take it again in hand to give it on the obstacle again”

Continuation of the world tour with a new vehicle

A family meeting was held with my brother, my sister-in-law and my two nephews. We are agreed that I was to set out again at the accident scene to continue my journey. The question to solve consisted in deciding the choice of the new vehicle. The experience of a MAN truck, with its advantages and its disadvantages and, my age inclined me to look at a smaller motor home. I contacted several travellers whose Michel W. I fixed my choice after several visits on a Mercedes “G” equipped with a Azalaï body, to see here. But alas this vehicle on order will not be available before mid-October 2013. Of course I would not have with my future truck, called truck-2, the conveniences which I had with the MAN. I must wait eight month remaining at the backoffice while taking part in the maintenance work of the Estate of Rochilles.
The not-definite delivery date, the debugging then the upgrade before the new departure return the shipping of camoin-2 to the continent of North America at the end of the autumn 2013. It will not be the ideal moment to approach the east coast of Canada and/or the USA taking into account the shipping roads carrying vehicles, to follow. 

Stay at the Estate of Rochilles

Family

During the school holidays my brother and my sister-in-law accommodated their four grandchildren.

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My brother & my sister-in-law with two of their four grandchildren Family meeting

Working

I took part, with my two left hands, with various maintenance work of the estate, wood-cutting, clearing of undergrowth and especially the tiling of the edge of the swimming pool and the repair of the wall of a bank whose origin probably goes back to work of the convicts of Toulon.

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Tiling of the pool
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Repair of a wall
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Gastronomy

My stay at the Estate of Rochilles is always a gastronomical course of big games, wild boar, moufflon, roe-deer, chamois etc., small games, woodcock, thrush, pheasant, partridge etc, without forgetting wild trouts of the Verdon's canyon as well as sumptuous morels.

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Two heads of wild boar
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Head of moufflon
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I must tell an anecdote; I accompanied my nephew Christophe and his Mathys son at fishing party in the Artuby canyon, to see here. Alas I slipped on the slipping rocks under water and I fell heavily by causing a distortion of the right knee. Of course I consulted the urgencies of the hospital of Draguignan which produced radios and a MRI. I carried a splint during 10 days, I took drugs as well as 20 physiotherapies of rehabilitation.

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Guy & Mathys
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Christophe
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Christophe & Mathys

At the breaking news my new vehicle will be put in manufacturing at the beginning of September…