The Roissybus picks you up at the airport and drops you off at the corner of rue Scribe and rue Auber (above), around the corner from Opéra. The most inexpensive way to get to central Paris from Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) is the Roissybus. The 2016 fare for a one way ticket is…(Read More)

The first in the family to use technology to get on an airplane…(Read More)

The North and Middle Sisters across the lava fields at McKenzie Pass. Went on a 260-mile scooter ride with Bill and Suzy Cole. The scenic route over the Cascades from Eugene to Sisters — and back. The GPS calculated our maximum speed at 108 MPH. If that was true, I wouldn't have…(Read More)

Had a few minutes in a row 40 window seat on Delta flight 43 from Paris to Cincinatti. Flying about 35,000 feet a little southwest of Iceland over the North Atlantic…(Read More)

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Correspondence from Line 1 to Line 8 at Concorde…(Read More)

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce made the first photograph in 1826. While “View from the Window at Le Gras” might not be the most spectacular photograph ever made, it was the beginning. The street named for him in the 14th Arrondissement is only a block long. The inventor of photography deserved more…(Read More)

We were on our way to a brocante at the Square des Batignolles in the 17th Arrondissement when we sought refuge from the rain at the Italian restaurant La Gioconda. Lasagna and Pizza Diavola were the orders of the day. The excellent restaurant is located at 1, rue Brochant and it’s open everyday…(Read More)

There are a thousand things that I love about Paris, but when I walk down the street and turn the corner and see a window in a store, like today at Printemps on Boulevard Haussman, it blows me away. The style and design creativity you see here is staggering, at least to me…(Read More)

A Magnolia stellata and other trees frame a statue in the Jardin du Palais Royal in the 1st Arrondissement. Flowering pink Magnolia trees accent the park in the spring…(Read More)

There was a brass band and a movie production going on today in Belleville…(Read More)

It was a mixed sunny and rainy Sunday in Paris. We spent time at a brocante along Avenue Willson in the 8th Arrondissment. Afterward we strolled down the street and found a nice cup of hot chocolate and very friendly waiters at the La Belle Ferronniere, 53 rue Pierre Charron…(Read More)

Palm Sunday Mass at Notre Dame was spectacular…(Read More)

On this particular day they topped off the Cote-du-Rhone cask with a hose that ran from a tank in the cellar. A 2009 bottle of wine with deposit cost about 5.50 Euros. Le Baron Rouge is located in the 12th Arrondissement, near the Ledru Rollin Métro stop on Line 8 and…(Read More)

A scene from the Vanves flea market in Paris, which is held on Saturdays and Sundays near the Porte de Vanves on Avenue Marck Sangnier and Avenue Lafenestre in the 14th Arrondissement…(Read More)

It’s preferred that you not seat yourself at the restaurant in the Palais de Tokyo…(Read More)

Trish and Kim At one of their familiar perches in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. And of course, there were the bees…(Read More)

A paper shirt in a shop on rue des Franc Bourgeouis in Paris…(Read More)

The first refreshments of the trip at Café du Marché along rue du Champs de Mars in Paris. Students having their picture made at the Tour Eiffel. Red Vespa along rue Lauriston…(Read More)

Back to Steve’s Prince of Steaks for a final Philly lunch. You’ve got to say “wizwith” so they understand that you want a cheesesteak with Cheez Whiz and onions…(Read More)

A 6,000-square-foot American flag mural painted on the side of a Philadelphia warehouse facing Interstate 95, in a project commemorating the events of Sept. 11…(Read More)

Fishtown is the Philadelphia neighborhood where Reed and Nat live. It’s interesting and diverse…(Read More)

It’s pretty amazing to think about those who’ve been honored at the National Cathedral…(Read More)

Conductor Anna, approaching Aberdeen. Amtrak 171 had a great conductor. Her name was Anna and I asked if I could get off the train in Aberdeen, to shoot a picture of the sign. She said “just stick with me.” The train station sign in Aberdeen, Maryland — the town where I was born…(Read More)

Atlantic City lifeguards on the beach in front of the Convention Center. Kim takes a dip in the Atlantic Ocean at the end of Osborne Ave. in Margate City, NJ…(Read More)

Another visit to Steve’s Prince of Steaks in Philadelphia, reputed to be the best cheesesteak in the city…(Read More)

The northern California mountains. The Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco…(Read More)

Chinese lantern plant…(Read More)

Josh, Adam and Jeff at the Auberge de Brux in Brux, France…(Read More)

Ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, the site of a Nazi massacre on June 10, 1944…(Read More)

Firefighters practice along Tennessee Avenue…(Read More)

Vespas in Paris, January 2007…(Read More)

Striking gold at Louis Vuitton on Avenue des Champs Elyséss…(Read More)