Munich to Sun Valley, July 18 - 19, 2014

We drove on Friday from Munich to Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport, where we had booked a room at one of the many nearby hotels.  With “Jacques” fully unloaded, we called Renault’s airport representative to arrange for vehicle’s transfer, which was expeditiously accomplished at our hotel.  The odometer showed that we had driven 14,693 kilometers (9,126 miles).

Farewell to Jacques near CDG Airport

It would be hard to overstate our satisfaction with Renault’s leasing program for the arrangements were straightforward, the price was quite reasonable, and Jacques, a brand-new Renault Clio Estate, functioned flawlessly with excellent fuel mileage (kilometrage?) thanks to the diesel engine.  “Agatha,” our GPS, was a lifesaver as she guided us through impossibly complicated street mazes in Spain, Scotland, and Lithuania with only a rare mistake.   It is hard to know now how we navigated during our six-month trip in 2006 using only maps. 

The flight home on Saturday was as pleasant as transatlantic air travel can be (damning with faint praise perhaps), and we arrived in Salt Lake City on time to catch our connecting hop to Sun Valley.   It was a great trip, but it was good to be home.