Because We Can

Life isn’t just the big things, sometimes it is stopping to enjoy the aquarium in the entrance where you are staying. Or maybe it is a framers market in a small town in France where the vendors set up on the side of the road and no one minds. Maybe it taking a road out of town, and discovering that the fence alongside the road is made of concrete. Maybe it is walking through a cemetery and noting that a number of the graves have reference to a death that took place during World War I. There were over 16 million deaths in WW I, a little over 100,000 of which were Americans. You can not go to any town in France without seeing long lists of deaths in Guerre Mondiale. Armand Delat died in the battle of Verdun. There were over 1,000,000 casualties in this battle of which some 260,000 where killed. We look at the Battle of Gettysburg as being so horrific, yet there weren’t even 260,000 engaged in the battle. Gettysburg lasted 3 days, Verdun nearly a year. In the end neither meant ...

One our very first stops whenever we get into a new town is at the Tourist Information Office to pick up a map. That was a couple of days ago. This is what the map of Limoges looked like this morning when I was throwing it away. It was definitely well used! Those single outlets can go a long way when we have an outlet cube that allows us to plug three things into a single outlet. In this case it is only the camera battery charger and the computer power source, neither of which draws much current. On the train I watched the fields of France go by while Linda used the time to good advantage, learning more French words. She has amazed me with how much practical French she has picked up. I knew she was awesome, but here she was being even more awesome than usual. I sure did do well in the wife department. We are not staying in a hotel in Les Eyzies, but rather in une chambre, a room in a house. We were expecting something very small, and were really surprised at how big it was. ...