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Ever since leaving his San Francisco business to his associates, filmmaker Christopher Strong has been doing what many of us dream of doing: cycling the French Country backroads with no fixed itinerary, tasting the land and the people as well as the food and wine. As a result of those memorable meetings with exceptional people in amazing places, Christopher Strong has morphed into: The Bicycle Gourmet. He has more than a few all tales to tell. In this audiobook, Christopher has selected his personal best. Close your eyes, open your ears, and glide down the French Country backroads.

Awesome adventures with amazing people in incredible places. That's what San Francisco film maker Christopher Strong (aka/ the Bicycle Gourmet) has been experiencing cycling the French country back roads filming his Treasures of France Lifestyle Adventure series.

France has many treasures - food, wine, fashion, history, art. But for me, one of the France's greatest treasures are its people. After a zillion and a half years cycling the French country backroads, I've had awesome adventures with incredible people, of all nationalities, and I'm going to share them with you now, in this audiobook!

France has many treasures - food, wine, fashion, history, and art. But for me, one of its greatest treasures is the people. After cycling the French country back roads for the last zillion and a half years, I've had awesome adventures with incredible people of all nationalities. And I'm going to share them with you now in this book.

Peter Mayle started it all with A Year in Provence, inspiring Rick Steves, the Lonely Planet crew, and all the France Travel Guidebook creators that were to follow. One guy who was not influenced by these fine folks was the author of this book. Simply because at that time, he didn't know they existed! But not to worry. San Francisco filmmaker Christopher Strong had his own Tour de France dream: to spontaneously cycle the French country backroads. With no fixed itinerary. Tasting the land and the people as well as the food and wine.

In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of racism today. They invited a multiracial team of fourteen scholars to join in, thus launching the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project.