French Donut

The ladies were leading the charge to the Chunnel. We opted for the self-guided tour of the French countryside, two car convoy. The credit cards were glowing from the purchase of our Rail Tunnel tickets. The Strait of Dover was on our call sheet. We checked down the list of essentials...diesel, charged iPad, water, lollipops. We had limited time to make ready for our return to England. The side track that caused our time tightness was necessary. The Beaches of Normandy called to us, to pay our respects to the unbelievable sacrifices made there. We had to pay respects. We did. Our squad was rolling deep and we all had the opportunity to quietly reflect. The magnitude of D-Day is heavy. It was difficult to walk among the grave markers and wrap my head around the casualties. Made me want to lift a glass of Belgian beer in salutation. Made me want to shake a lot of hands in history.

About 45 metric minutes into the drive as we dipped out of Normandy toward the Chunnel, the convoy disassembled formation. Me and my main man broke stride from our wifey's, unintentionally. Call signals were mixed up, I dove for the paper maps. We had the little dude in the back car seat, iPad was juiced. My main man scrambled to the receiver of his cellular device. We communicated our whereabouts to the wives. We held our composure and did not drop any F-Bombs while en route to re route. Little man in the back held us accountable. I think the games on the iPad triggered our re route as the little man calmly focused on the coordinates of completing them. The pilot of the diesel powered SUV got into a zone that I admired. We were roaming the French countryside and had the ramifications of missing our Chunnel time with the wifey's steady on our radar screen. The combo platter of paper maps, the GPS and the games on the iPad called for the ultimate U-Turn. The turn was so delicately focused and powerfully executed with dust flying and gravel sprawling to the gutters that it felt like a fortified, fully completed donut. We regained visuals of our lead car. I like to call that maneuver a 'French Donut.' I took a screenshot from the dash cam of my Digital Panasonic LUMIX FH20 camera.