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Europe 2019 Part Three – Arriving in the South of France
Onwards to Colle-sur-Loup We have a short day of driving from Lyon to the tiny town of Colle-sur-Loup on the road leading north from Cagnes-sur-Mer to Saint-Paul de Vence in the south of France—the...
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Europe 2019 Part Four: Exhibition in the South of France
We Arrive At Our New Home for Two Weeks By the time we pull into the driveway of our new home away from home, we’ve driven 1500 km. So far, all our arrangements have gone well, and we’re relieved to...
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Europe 2019 Part Five: Surviving the Canicule in Style
The Heat Wave Hits It’s all over the news—even back home. We get emails and Facebook messages about the French heatwave—the canicule. How are we getting on? Is it hot? Is it really hot? In a word—oui....
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Europe 2019 Part Six: Heading into Western France
Dropping Off the Paintings Before we can properly start the vacation part of our vacation (as opposed to the exhibition part), we need to drop the boxes of paintings at a courier for storing while we...
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Europe 2019 Part Seven: Descending into Spain
Climbing Over the Pyrenees We leave Albi and drive west toward the Pyrenees. Today is the first day of our entire trip (actually, the only day as it turns out) that we experience serious, lasting rain...
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Europe 2019 Part Eight: Sweating Our Way Through Southern Spain
Holy Toledo The drive to Toledo from Zaragoza is long and tedious through mostly flat lands that give way to urban sprawl around Madrid which we must circle to get to Toledo in the southwest. The...
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Europe 2019 Part Nine – Exploring the Algarve
Driving to the Algarve A scenic and virtually traffic-free, two-hour drive takes us from Seville to the little town of Luz in the western Algarve. Our route skirts the large resorts in the mid-Algarve,...
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Europe 2019 Part Ten: Enjoying Our Last Week in Portugal
Hanging Out in Figueira da Foz From the Algarve, we drive first to the town of Figueira da Foz which is located on the Atlantic about halfway between Lisbon and Porto. We are here for two nights to...
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Why I Broke Up With NaNoWriMo
I love NaNoWriMo, which is why this year I’m not doing it. First posted in 2018; revised on October 31, 2019 because I’m still not doing NaNoWriMo (although I totally recommend it). Don’t you love this...
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In honor of the 101th Anniversary of the Armistice, I’m posting this story that I wrote after visiting my great-grandfather’s grave at the Somme in France. The story is part of a collection of my...
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