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Europe 2014 – Paris – Kansas Meets Paris and Neither is the Same

August 15, 2014 · by · in Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.), Europe, Europe 2014, France, Paris · Leave a comment

Timeline: July 24th  – 30th   Bev was due into Charles de Gaulle around 9:30 in the morning on Saturday the 26th so I left the Cosmos a good 90 minutes before hand to allow myself time to navigate the metro to Gare du Nord where I would pick up the RER A line for […]

Europe 2014 – Paris – Nothing Better Than Seeing a Good Friend Again

August 13, 2014 · by · in Europe, Europe 2014, France, Montigney-Le-Brettonoux, Paris · 2 Comments

Timeline: July 24th  – 30th Given our experience on the way to Lyon on non-toll roads, we decided to damage the budget a bit and use them to get to Francois’ in Montigny.  Using a new tool we’d discovered, the Michelin Route Planner, a Google Maps type of website that calculates the various routes you […]

Europe 2014 – Montigny, Part Two (May 22-26)

June 1, 2014 · by · in Bicycle Tours and Rides, Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.), Europe, Europe 2014, France, Montigney-Le-Brettonoux, Paris · 1 Comment

Note to our followers: We recommend the use of Chrome as your browser for one important reason.  It will automatically translate into English many of the web pages I’ve listed a link for.  It is a very handy tool to have available.  We had called ahead to let Francois know we would arrive around 7:00pm […]

Europe 2007 – The Start of a New Adventure, Part Four

May 2, 2014 · by · in Cathedral, Chartres, Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.), Europe, Europe 2007, France, Germany, Montigney-Le-Brettonoux, Paris · 3 Comments

We made the five-hour drive down to Francois’ place in Montigny without any further incident.  It would be our first time to his new apartment, which he shared with his son Axel, after so many visits to the house that he and Heike had shared during our past journeys.  With their divorce a few years […]

Europe 1982 – Our Shared Adventure Begins

January 11, 2014 · by · in Ansbach, Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.), Denmark, Europe, Europe 1982, Germany, Les Mesnil-St. Denis, Munich, Paris · Leave a comment

Upon my return to Los Angeles in early April, I set about looking for a new job.  This search would lead me to UCLA, the place where I would end up spending the bulk of my career.  The job itself was as a low-level supervisor, but it put me on campus and introduced me to […]

Europe 1981 – Living the Parisian Life

January 6, 2014 · by · in Amsterdam, Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.), Europe, Europe 1981, Netherlands, Paris · Leave a comment

Settled back into life in Los Angeles, I found work with a food broker and rented a two-bedroom apartment with my brother Chuck on Ocean Park Blvd in Santa Monica.  In the same building as Rendy, it would be home for a couple of years.  Joanna and I started dating (she and my sister Beverly […]

Europe 1977 – The Start of the Adventure

December 28, 2013 · by · in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belgium, Bologna, Brussels, Calais, England, Europe, Europe 1977, Germany, London, Munich, Netherlands, Paris, Spain · 8 Comments

Waxing philosophical will play a role in this blog, but at other times posts will be more mundane.  Where we went, what we ate, who we saw.  You get the drill.  This one will begin to explore the history of our travels to Europe and why it is the first big destination for us as […]

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