For those of you who follow my blog, you know how little I knew about France before I began this journey.  As we prepare to leave I can...

   I have never lived in a city where mass transit was an accepted mode of travel.  I've been on a New York City subway, I've ridd...

   For a generation that is being raised to watch movies on their iPhones it is important to remember how much is lost when viewing great wo...

  I've always been curious about gargoyles.  I've been intrigued that so much effort was put into making such macabre images.  How...

   One of my goals in Paris was to visit a movie location from the Harrison Ford picture Frantic.  The final scene, where Ford and Emmanue...

   Paris is full of photographers.  Professional, amateur, and iPhone-snappers.  I have trouble seriously calling that last group photograp...

   We have discovered that it is far more worthwhile to walk the streets of Paris away from the popular tourist locations.  Such landmarks...

   It has only taken me a day to learn a significant cultural difference between the United States and France.  Despite the fact that the Fr...

   After all of the planning, all of the speculating, and all of the advice offered to us, we are finally in Paris, France.    Leaving in...

  (We pick up where we left off on the last post.  I had decided to take my bride to Paris and stay in an apartment for two weeks.  I would ...