Patrick has spent the last three weeks following the Tour de France with our friends from Escape Collective. A Bit Of BackstoryThe Tour caravan dates back to 1930, an innovation of Tour de France creator Henri Desgrange. I’ve covered the Tour de France six times, and over that period the caravan has conspicuously changed. The old man with a printed A4 page in a plastic sleeve which says "Bien-venue a Tour de France Caravan" in what looks like italicized comic sans. The Tour de France caravan remains undefeated.