Category Hiking/Walking
West Coast Spring 2018 – Nashville, Part Four
May 14 – 17 With some time to kill our last morning in Nashville, Joanna took her bike out for a ride on the nearby greenway (my knee was still in no condition to do so) while I read and worked on the blog. After she returned and cleaned up, we drove to Post East […]
Montreal 2018 – Part Three
April 12-16 With the wedding scheduled to start in the early afternoon, we were up pretty early and with coffee made, laid into the “Francois” breakfast we’d assembled, Dillon requesting it as it reminded him of the picnic we’d had in Paris in 2015 with his then girlfriend Simone, Beverly, Francois and myself. With temperatures […]
Montreal 2018 – Part Two
April 12-16 As planned we hit the pavement early for a day of sightseeing, using a walking tour provided in a Montreal guidebook I’d purchased. We walked for a mile or so towards the St. Lawrence River and once we reached Place d’Armes (which contains a monument to Paul de Chomedey, founder of Montreal) stopped […]
Europe 2017 – Summary, Part Five
August 24 – November 15 The final country we’d spend time in is one we continue to find fascinating and wonder how we’ve let it slip past us during the course of our many visits to Europe. This would be France. Although we’d been to Paris many times when stopping in to see Francois and […]
Europe 2017 – Summary, Part Four
August 24 – November 15 The next big portion of the trip was spent in Spain, where we took on the challenge of completing the Camino de Santiago. What would have been approximately five weeks walking got shortened by ten days when we decided to rent bikes to finish our trek. We used nine of […]
Europe 2017 – Barcelona, Part Two
November 12-15 After breakfast in the apartment, we set out for the 20-minute walk to Casa Mila. Followers of this blog will recognize our fascination with Antoni Gaudi (much like with Frank Lloyd Wright) and this would mark the third time on this trip we’d visited a building he was responsible for or had some […]
Europe 2017 – Barcelona, Part One
November 12-15 The four-hour ride down to Barcelona went smoothly and cost 43 euros for the two of us. Using Flix Bus had been an unanticipated bonus for travel in Europe. It’s low fares and expansive route system, coupled with fairly modern, clean, and comfortable buses, while not quite as nice as riding on the […]
Europe 2017 – Montpellier, Part Seven
November 8-11 We had a cup of coffee (a welcome change from the Nescafe packaged drink we bought each night at the market) in the breakfast room at Les Nevons before departing for Avignon and the train to Montpellier. This all went smoothly, retracing our steps and the familiar sites taking much of the anxiety […]
Europe 2017 – Provence Part Six
November 2 – 7 Our last day in Provence would again focus on the countryside and small hill towns that dot the area. Our first stop was the hilltop town of Gordes, the Luberon’s most impressively situated hill town. In the 1960s this was a virtual ghost town of derelict buildings where locals led simple […]
Europe 2017 – Provence Part Five
November 2 – 7 We awoke the next morning having had a rough night’s sleep. Something outside of our room made a loud banging noise, almost like metal on metal and the continual racket woke us without cease. As we prepared to hit the road the next morning, we stopped at the front desk to […]
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