Why France?

The cold wind is snapping down from the Pyrenees like the end of a bullwhip. It’s very fierce and the sting is making…

First Days in France

Paris was nice, but that’s wasted ink because Paris is always nice. It’s the most special of all the places in the world…

The bike, Decathlon’s cheapest model, is lovely and will serve my needs adequately, but it arrived with the front tire a little underinflated….

There. It’s out of my system. Puns aren’t my forte and I came up with nothing beyond that phrase, but it’s the first…

Today I left Paris by train and came to a part of the world several hundred miles from anyplace I’ve ever been before….