guess this road......

[Series4]

D'accord. Vous êtes en piste! The exact point is 44.813019,4.244499 and the sign is visible using Google street view. The photo was taken facing S.

I, too was surprised the Ligne wasn't marked. Even searching for French pages I couldn't find more than a sketch map

Second part of the question was: what nationally significant location is nearby (clue: river)? I had just come from there, about 5km away on a road not the D122

 

[DanPez]

I crossed referenced the TdF with the Catégorie:Ligne de partage des eaux entre mer Méditerranée et océan Atlantique and came up with the route that Daniel posted D122 going to D116.
Is the spot Mont Gerbier de Jonc on the river La Loire?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http:...l=44.8325,4.208622&spn=0.036521,0.075617&z=14

Edit:
Just saw you post
Damm ..... was 2 km away

 

[Series4]

I'll give Daniel the points for the sign, and you the points for Gerbier de Jonc which is the source of the Loire, France's longest river. I stopped there for coffee without realising the significance of the place. For a description of the journey drop into my website www.toobmany.com and look under Tre Mila Miglia, a WIP blog

 

[DanPez]

For a description of the journey drop into my website http://www.toobmany.com and look under Tre Mila Miglia, a WIP blog

Thats it ..... NOW you tell me that you have a web site like Daniel? :lol: :lol:

Seriously very NICE site!

 

[Daniel Kalal]

While we're waiting for more players to arrive, I'll toss this one out.

 

[Series4]

Is it in the Irish state of O'Regon

 

[Daniel Kalal]

Is it in the Irish state of O'Regon

nope...

 

[Series4]

lower 48? Whit-log are O'regon based. Washington State? Leaves only another 47 to go

 

[Daniel Kalal]

lower 48? Whit-log are O'regon based. Washington State? Leaves only another 47 to go

Got to be California, then.

 

[Series4]

It's the Tallahatchie Bridge and the traffic's stopped because they're looking for Billy Jo McAllister. C'mon, somebody help me out here!

 

[Daniel Kalal]

C'mon, somebody help me out here!

Here're two hints: (the common ground between the two being the hint)

1) STELLA!!!
2) "Yeah, I'm, I'm hip about time. But I just gotta go."

 

[DanPez]

lower 48? Whit-log are O'regon based. Washington State? Leaves only another 47 to go

Got to be California, then.

California you say ....
If Whit-log is Oregon based this means the truck's going home (upper California) right?
By process of elimination ..... gotta be ON or NEAR hwy 101, 199, 96, or 3, interstate 5, hwy 89, 97, 139, 299 or 395.
Did I hit one? :lol:

1)Stella!!
2)"Yeah, I'm, I'm hip about time. But I just gotta go."

Film ....A Streetcar Named Desire?
Film .... Easy Rider?

 

[Daniel Kalal]

If Whit-log is Oregon based this means..

Whit-log just makes trailers; they don't care about lumber...

hwy 101, 199, 96, or 3, interstate 5, hwy 89, 97, 139, 299 or 395

Yeah; those are all great motorcycle roads (excepting I-5 of course)

 

[DanPez]

I wiki'd
Film ....A Streetcar Named Desire.
Brought me to Stella Kowalski first info:
The play begins when Blanche comes to visit Stella and Stanley in New Orleans.

Film .... Easy Rider.
Easy Rider is a 1969 film about two counterculture bikers who travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.

The common for both is New Orleans?

I wiki'd New Orleans ..... there is no New Orleans California but there is:
Originally known as New Orleans Bar, it was renamed Orleans Bar in 1855, when it became the county seat of the now-defunct Klamath County, California.

Hwy 96 ..... one bridge crosses that hwy.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=...=iItsONnuj_gma5d5Vj3aNw&cbp=12,83.92,,0,13.04 :woohoo:

 

[Daniel Kalal]

The common for both is New Orleans?

Well done. I guess I could have also used a France reference for the hint, but I do like that ever-so-sixties Easy Rider quote.

I've ridden the length of each of the numbered highways of northern California. It's hard to pick the best, but 96 is a river road for much of its length, and those sorts of roads with their long sweeping turns as they follow the river through the valleys are just so perfect for what a Guzzi is best at. CA-96 is a great road.

 

[DanPez]

Here's one from my neck of the woods.



edit:
:whistle: :whistle:
OK a hint ...... the bridge is located near Expo 67

 

[Series4]

Is it the world's longest cantilever bridge?

 

[DanPez]

Is it the world's longest cantilever bridge?

Your getting pretty close!!
It's in the top 20 thats for sure.

Another hint:
On the right bottom side of the pic there is an amusement park ..... "La Ronde"

 

[Series4]

sur le pont Jacques Cartier, n'est pas? 45.526795,-73.536987

 

[Series4]

OK, this next one from me should be quite a simple exercise in logic.

These pics were taken from astride the LM3 fifteen seconds apart
After the LH curve ahead the road turns right
From this point to the photo taken at the Ligne de Partage (you've scored that one already) eighteen minutes elapsed
I was riding briskly but not fast, fast (too much to see!)
Included in that time was an espresso at the Gerbier de Jonc (also scored)
Another photographer has posted an almost identical picture of the sucs