We’ve sung Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” ten times more than the average Willie fan can muster in a 3-week period. It’s been an interesting transition being away from home this long.  As each day is so dense, a week ends up feeling like a month.  Learning traffic signs in the moment while zipping […]

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The alarm went off too damn early.  Way, way too early. If the jet lag didn’t get us the night before, the vino would follow up with the one-two punch.  It was time to leave Paris.  After four nights, we were headed to the Loire Valley (see photo slideshow below). We made our way through […]

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What do you get when you mix jet lag, Quasimodo and Belgian beer all into a baguette?  Well, it would probably look something like this… Just before we packed up our bags to move on to our next journey, we made a little ode to the city of Paris.  

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Sacre bleu!  Having a Heineken at the Sacre Cour!

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Just stumbled across this strange radio tower in Paris

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There it stood. The cathedral of Notre Dame. A foreboding, massive block of granite with ornately carved details covering every inch. Stone figures and vicious gargoyles festoon the walls, looking down on the ever-changing face of Paris over the centuries. We had just stepped out of the train station and she was our first sight. […]

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Houston, the Eagle has landed.  Where is this? First right answer wins a glass of absinthe.

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It’s on.

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Years in the making.  Countless hours of dreaming and scheming.  At long last, the portal is within sight.  It’s time for launch. After seeing the idea evolve from kernel to foggy plan, and now from foggy plan to sharpened reality, we are oh so close.  In eight days time, Kat and I board a plane […]

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Human excess.  Sheer spectacle.  The “world’s largest,” the “world’s most expensive,” the “world’s prettiest,” the “world’s _____.”  Yep, you get it.  Bring on the superlatives, people, cause it’s Vegas, baby, Vegas. After being oddly obsessed with it since my childhood—I mean have you seen ‘Bugsy’?  Yowza, that on-screen romance between Warren Beatty and Annette Bening […]

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“Oo la la…who is that dashing American in the leather jacket?” “Why that’s Captain Sidecar, mademoiselle.  But you be careful with his kind.” The Hôtel Ritz is one of the grandest, most opulent hotels in the world.  Built in 1898 in the heart of Paris, its bar saw the likes of Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest […]

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