nope was allowed to go on my own.!....credit card, check book, house title, car ownership papers all confiscated before I left....I was even on a 'promise' if i didn't spend any money!......unfortunately the Pearl izumi socks were calling my name...as was a poster & tee-shirt of the classic 2001 paris-Roubaix photo of Hincapie, Meesuuw covered in *****....the caption says..."Go hard or go home".......it was all I could afford!......(but i did spend along time sucking up to the groupe sportiff dudes!)

Hitchy