Please take our bike!!!

The Island Palace



A canal



Our beach at night

July 16
It was down to business today. We needed to find a couple things in Annecy: the mailboxes etc to ship our bike and some bike shops to get bike boxes/packing material or bike shops to buy our bike. We took off in the morning and searched every nook and cranny in the city and neighboring cities. We finally had to ask a local to find the street for Mailboxes etc. after cruising the streets for about an hour. We finally found the place after some guess work. It turns out that our bike is not quite as expensive as the quote the internet gave us, but still more expensive than we’d like to pay to ship. The problem is that no one we’ve found actually “ships” packages but sends them by plane. We would definitely be willing to wait a month or more for our bike to arrive if it meant paying less, but everyone just really wants to fly our bike to America within the week. We also tried at the post office and they gave us the name of another shipping company that ships by train, but we could never find. We also saw DHL and UPS trucks, but they all ship by plane. As a break in the day, we visited the office of tourism to ask what there was to see around the city and where bike shops were. They have these offices in every city and they are very helpful. We went to see two sights that the lady suggested and then it was back off to find a bike shop. The bike shop was easy to find and he had exactly two bike boxes which is what we needed. He did not, however, want our bike or know anyone who did. So, we went to the other bike shop in town. That owner said that he might know someone who wanted it but we would have to come back tomorrow to find out. He even told us that we should ask for more, but Nate said we would just be happy to sell it. After our long day of searching, we finally went grocery shopping, made dinner, and relaxed by the lake before going to bed.
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Mo