France travel stories

France, Morocco, Spain - July 2004

In late July 2004 we took a 5,000 kilometers driving trip from Paris to Rabat, Morocco and back home, greatly enjoying the French and Spanish Basque region, Andalusia and northern Morocco. Espelet...

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The French Alps - Winter or Summer

Winter or summer the French Alps are simply splendid. val-d-isere-mountain-view I started skiing on a pair of pink wooden skis at Willamette Pass Ski Area in Oregon, which my grandparents managed ...

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Singin' in the Rain, and a hopelessly Superficial Exploitation of Ulysses

The good thing, one of the good things, about blowing up your engine and getting stuck in the same place for six weeks is that you really get into the endodermis of the place. There's probably ...

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The Festival of Music and the Muskrat Lovers

This has been a relatively slow period of our journey, so let me open by saying a few things about speaking foreign languages. I am no linguist. I lived in Germany for nearly thirteen years as a ki...

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The Friendliest Campground in Europe

I'm hardly a scientist, but I don't like dealing in absolutes. Of course, the pinnacle of my formal education was law school where you are taught (if you listen well), "There is no law or t...

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