Beautiful ride to St Vallier-de-Thiey. The weather was sunny; 19 degrees at start and 25 degrees at the end.
52.1km, 848 meters of up.
Two and a half hours on the bike and eleven minutes stopped.
Using my favorite GPS website, GPS Visualizer, I created the ride profile and Google Earth KML file.
Click on the images below for full sized views. The Google Earth screenshoots give a good idea about the ride.
The Col du Pilon was highest point at 782 meters 
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When I arrived in St Vallier-de-Thiey’s town center 
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there was a cool outdoor market 
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NPR’s This American Life is a great entertaining radio program. It is weekly, one hour long and perfect for a podcast listening. Unfortunately, the show owners make it difficult to download. I am a NPR station member of KGNU and if you download This American Life you should become a member also.
Below is a very easy way to get the weekly MP3 file.
I use mplayer and its dumpstream option.
The command line is:
mplayer.exe -dumpstream -dumpfile outputFilename showURL
The outputFilename can be what you want. I use shownumber.mp3
The showURL (might change), but is currently something like:
http://wbez-tal.streamguys.us:8020/content/showNumber.mp3
The showNumber changes every week. It is three digits and is around 316 today. Check the website archives for the value for the current week’s show.
For example.
o:\media\mplayer\mplayer.exe -dumpstream -dumpfile AL316+TheCatCameBack.mp3 http://wbez-tal.streamguys.us:8020/content/316.mp3
Update 29-Jun-07
A better URL is:
http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/ismymamashouse/322.mp3
Book one of A Time Odyssey. Cannot wait for the next in the series.
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