Thanks, Erich, for the explanation. I knew that most went to Le Havre, but hadn't heard of this route...as they went around the Vogese mountain trough, could you explain what the Burgundian Gate is? Excuse my ignorance, but I don't know about that. And thank you so much for the exact towns that they probably stopped at. I will now look them up and study that route. Regards from Texas, USA, Nellie, a 68-yr-old root digger