Spring road

This is the only straight road around. The Romans stayed around Narbonne and Toulouse, they didn't bother coming into the hinterland, among the mess of molusc-shaped hills, to straighten out crookedness.
The roads here are faithful to the rivers and streams. This accounts for their curves and bends and vaccilations. Here the Vixiege stretches itself out, tired of contorsions and currents, allowing itself to be simply pulled towards the sea.
The road does likewise. It is the road home - the last stretch of late journies back from Toulouse or Carcassonne, the relief of the straight and the flat and the almost-there.