After two hours of delay at the airport and a taxi before take-off that was so long we started calculating the airplane drive time to Tunisia, we landed in Tunis around midnight. Our possibly slightly inebriated (and very talkative) 60 year old driver then shuttled us off to P’s lovely apartment in La Marsa in […]
Places
New Orleans
New Orleans is a city of retired transients. A home for those with a someplace else, but no desire to return. We are tired socialites who abandoned the minty repose of Georgia afternoons. We are carpenters with gnarled knuckles who now spend our days building plaster replicas of the furnishings from a kingdom that lost […]
Paris Bucket List Redux
In reading over my Paris bucket list, it occurred to me that the list wasn’t really complete because it only included items I haven’t done before. As such, what follows is my Paris Redux list – those things I simply must do at least one more time before any exit from the city can be considered. […]
My Paris Bucket List
Everyone who visits Paris has their list of must-do activities. The standards include going up the Eiffel Tower, viewing the Mona Lisa, seeing the Arc de Triomphe, and having a grand love affair with a beautiful Parisian. But I’ve already done those…so this is my recently concocted, must-experience-before-I-leave list… Write at a fabulous cafe in […]
My Very Excellent Mother…
I just won two beers off bets with my French coworkers about whether Earth or Mars is closer to the sun. I gave them fair warning that we had that drilled into us in elementary school in the US, but they were CERTAIN I was wrong. Probably the only “geography†bet I’ll ever win. It […]
Tour de France – 2010
People being athletic and stuff. Oh yeah, while doing copious amounts of drugs. Impressive.