I think, therefore I am' - René Descartes 1596 - 1650
Summer is over already. Blackberries have ripened on the vine, hand picked, and turned into jam. I’ve replaced two aging toilets in the house, re-planked the front and back decks, designed and built a curtain drain...
One spring weekend, a small group of three or four teenage boys hatched some plan to drive to a neighboring town, meet up with an acquaintance which purportedly had free tickets to a movie. As so...
I spent some time at the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac today. This museums regular collections include indigenous art and culture from Asia, Africa, Oceana, and the Americas. One of their informative placards was the...
Paris has a population of about 2.27 million people and a population density of 21,498 people per square kilometer. It has the 22nd highest population density of any major city on earth(1). Compare that with Seattle...
I stood in line for over an hour waiting to buy a ticket for an elevator ride to the top of the Eiffel Tower. An hour gives you plenty of time to meet your neighbors in...
Travel is all about adventure, challenges, and new experiences. Sometimes you go out seeking these things and sometimes they just land in your lap like a stack of wet newspapers. In today’s case, I collected...
The term “exploring” implies open-mind, totally objective, information gathering. That is not what really is going on here. Whenever I have a little time in a new town or village, even when I was just...