Avignon again

For as much as I love thinking of myself quasi-nomadic, I sure like to talk to myself about someday settling … More

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Towns of the Knights Templar

I keep getting my socks knocked off by the hilly backcountry north of Montpellier. On a tongue-in-cheek map of France … More

I love that sense-sharpened feeling of arriving in a new place. Taking it all in, eyes wide open, as you … More

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We made it back to Mourèze, a town I’d mentioned in my last post, and you know what? I still … More

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Enamored of our driver’s licenses and motivated by a sense of the clock ticking down on our time here in … More

Woo-hoo, we’ve been sprung!* Almost the second the second confinement was lifted, we got out of town, fleeing the classic … More

Way back when, I had a Tumblr, mostly for pictures of our 9 month are-we-really-going-to-do-this trip. I’d been meaning to … More

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A friend gave Mark the Dr. Seuss book Oh, The Places You’ll Go during a time of great uncertainty in … More

Occasionally on an excursion, Mark will look at me and say, Monster Park, Maer, and I’ll know exactly what he … More

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We don’t generally think of France as being Roman, Italy of course has that claim wrapped up. But France was … More