“It went by so fast,” I said, as I rolled over to go to sleep last night. Almost two months in Europe is now behind us and we are heading home today. Yesterday afternoon, I sat at the cafe in front of our hotel in Helsinki, on a pedestrian street, and did this sketch looking…
This week “not” in The Pearl – June 25, 2026
It is hard to think that next week I will be posting from The Pearl. It has been quite a journey with a lot of memories. Tricia is posting about our time in Kotor today. Our apartment in Paris is in a perfect location, in a Haussmann style building, just a block from Gare Montparnasse….
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Parched in Paris
This is why we travel in the Spring and Fall.
A repost from 2019 – Change is in the works
This was my post seven years ago today, it just seemed fitting to repost it today, from Paris. COVID delayed our plans to move to France by a couple of years. January 1994 at the Holiday Inn in Racine, Wisconsin to May 2, 2019 at this Best Western in Silverdale, Washington – 26 years, five…
This week “not” in The Pearl – June 18, 2026
We have been back in France now for 18 days, and in Paris for the last week. So how does it feel to be back in Paris? The first word that comes to my mind is ‘familiar.’ Though it is quite a different vibe than The Pearl, it does not seem foreign. I am doing…
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