I continued to follow the Way of Liberty (French troops coming home after France was liberated in WW II) and also the signs pointing to WW I battle sites. The last theme was field after field of grain and silos built even for train entry and pick-up--had to capture that scene. The WW theme is everywhere including a mural on a house long since deserted, but the mural seems to live on.
After walking 29.2 km (18.3 mi) and then some because of a turn I missed, I arrived at The town of Suippes. It was comfortably cool, but very windy on the plateaus. I had expected no hotels in Suippes, although the military post there gave me false hopes, so I caught a bus to the off-route town of Chalons-en-Champagne. At Chalons, I didn't like what Booking.com had to offer. So I headed to the office de tourisme which had several options including a relatively new youth hostel--that's where I'm staying for 20€. I decided also to book the youth hostel in Reims and use it as a base while walking back to make up and forward one day. That takes the hotel stress out of the equation!
