USA | Monday, 4 Jan 2016 | Views [272]
MY BELATED NEW YEAR RESOLUTION is to keep this journal updated regularly, even though little of importance seems to have occurred. We spent the holidays quietly in Wilcox in the still unseasonably cold weather. We rang in the new year with ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 13 Dec 2015 | Views [379]
THEY CALL US SNOWBIRDS, WE CHILL AVERSE SENIORS who migrate to places like Arizona and Florida for the winter. But this season we could be coming for the snow, not from it. Despite the fifty and sixty degree days, nighttime temperatures ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 11 Dec 2015 | Views [272]
CONNIE, WHO HAS PATIENTLY RIDDEN SHOTGUN for five years, is making up for lost time. She loves to drive and has much more experience towing vehicles — even if only behind a tractor — than I and, bless her heart, she drove the entire ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 6 Dec 2015 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Wednesday, 2 Dec 2015 | Views [346]
YESTERDAY WAS THE FIRST DAY WITHOUT SNOW since we’ve been in the RV and the temperature still hasn’t gotten above freezing. We have gone through two tanks of propane but managed to keep nice and toasty. Jellystone Park (no kidding, ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 26 Nov 2015 | Views [373]
THANKSGIVING DAY AND WE ARE SNUG and warm in our new RV, despite the snowy and cold weather. Two hundred forty square feet may not seem like much to those of you living in your McMansions but after nearly five years of hotel rooms, ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 20 Nov 2015 | Views [298]
NO, WE’RE NOT IN KANSAS, TOTO, BUT IOWA isn’t that much different. It’s so flat here that it doesn’t take a lot of snow to make a blizzard. Just wind, and Bella (When exactly did they start naming winter storms?) ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 14 Nov 2015 | Views [403]
WHERE TO START? We have been home for three weeks now. Well, not exactly “home” — but in the USA at least. We still feel like strangers in a strange land. We are still surprised that overheard conversations ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 30 Oct 2015 | Views [335]
THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME CONFUSION about our previous entry. Our trip isn't TOTALLY over — we're just in another country, the USA. After breakfast in Paris, lunch in Reykjavik, and dinner in Colorado — no wonder we’re confused.... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 29 Oct 2015 | Photo Gallery
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FRANCE | Saturday, 24 Oct 2015 | Views [417]
LYON MUST BE THE STAIR-MASTER OF FRANCE: everything seems to be uphill or down. And a river runs through it — two rivers, actually, the Rhone and Saone, separated by the peninsula of Presqu’ile where we are staying. Lyon is supposedly ... Read more >
FRANCE | Saturday, 17 Oct 2015 | Views [421]
ACTUALLY IT’S PRONOUNCED “NIECE” AND “EASE” but it really is nice and easy. Nice may be the fifth largest city in France but we couldn’t find lodging there that met all or our needs; parking, it seems, costs ... Read more >
FRANCE | Thursday, 15 Oct 2015 | Views [383]
ET DIEU CREA LA FEMME. And God Created Woman . These five words — and the sex kitten Brigette Bardot — transformed the sleepy fishing village of St. Tropez into a port-of-call for celebrities and jet-setters. No longer ... Read more >
FRANCE | Friday, 9 Oct 2015 | Views [422]
ARLES AND AVIGNON HAVE THREE THINGS in common. It’s obvious that each begins with the letter “ A ,” and both are in Provence on the Rhone River. Arles and Avignon also have a history with Rome. Arles became an important ... Read more >
FRANCE | Wednesday, 7 Oct 2015 | Views [386]
ORANGE SOLVED TWO PROBLEMS FOR THE ROMANS. It was a perfect place to pension off loyal Roman officers and their presence would be a deterrent to those pesky Gauls who continued to tweak the Roman nose. The main sites are the city arch, not ... Read more >
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