Driving The Rhone

Our day in Lyon ended happily. We wifi'd at the aforementioned McDonald's, then subway'd and bus'd our way back to the camper, which was where we had left it. Then, even more happily, we found our way out of Lyon and headed south generally along the blue roads (here red), following the great river, stopping for the night at a Rhone vineyard and winery complex.

Thus; Hermitage was only a few miles away, but there's
really nothing to see there; this place actually opens it
parking lot to campers; we were not the only ones there

In their specimen plot

Great stuff; alas, the place was closed when we got there
and we left before it opened; just as well, since tasting the
vins and driving don't mix

Next morning, crossing back over; the Rhone can be quite
beautiful, in between the chemical plants, etc.

One of 4 monster traffic jams encountered that Saturday; we
thought we had timed our departure from Chamonix so as
to avoid the annual August 1st evacuation of Paris; alas,
so did everyone else

In every one of these cases, taking an hour or more to pass
through a single village, there was no road construction,
no break-down, no accident: just the typical difficulty of
having two lines of traffic merge into one; I thought Sicily
was bad; Sicily was nothing! Apparently this is how the
French spend much of their August-long vacances

Nuclear energy is good for children and other living things,
it says here; so are quarries, I guess; and wind-energy; is
there a moral here?