When you think of escaping the Scenic City for a long weekend getaway, what locales do you consider? Atlanta? Nashville? Cashiers, N.C., perhaps?
Albi, France, ever crossed your mind?
Didn’t think so.
Yet that’s just where amateur cycling junkie Jordan Picchiottino spent this past weekend. Catching a flight out of Atlanta last Thursday night, the 28-year-old Erlanger East surgical tech flew to Dublin, Ireland, where he endured a six-hour layover, then caught a flight to Paris for a four-hour layover, then took another flight to Toulouse, France, where he then rented a car for the 75-minute drive to Albi, arriving there less than 24 hours prior to the sole reason for his trip.
And what was that reason?