What a welcome escape Paris has been from what has become a series of difficult months that had a succession of loss. Losing a dear friend, Suzanne, who fell to her death while mountain guiding in Alaska, Brenda who passed due to complications from a routine surgery, Karma our dear fourteen year old Italian […]

I was 18 years old and had decided to hitchhike solo around Europe.  I bought a plane ticket to the Netherlands and began traveling south with an Australian woman I had met in front of the American Express in Amsterdam who was in need of a male hitchhiking companion to Italy. After a number of […]

It was the mid 70’s and I had been hitchhiking throughout central Europe for a month when I ended up in Rome, Italy. Using youth hostels for lodging I had become friends with other travelers who I would meet along the way in various cities. A fellow from the east coast of the States invited […]

In the mid 1970’s after high school I had decided to skip a year and travel rather than attend college. Buying a plane ticket I flew alone to Europe and hitchhiked from Holland to southern Italy and back. Arriving in Rome, Italy I found lodging in a small pension that was shared with a number […]

France 2010- We have been back a week now after spending two days in Iceland, eleven days in Paris and three in Beaune (Burgundy). It seemed to be three separate trips with each one as captivating as the other. The days and nights were filled with museums, art, jazz, history and food/wine and by renting a […]