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JANUARY 22, SUNDAY

SUNDAY, DAY OF REST Floating in Jetlag with my inner rhythm upside down I slept and wrote and ate, slept and wrote and at, slept and wrote and ate through the day and into the night and didn’t step out

JANUARY 22, SUNDAY

SUNDAY, DAY OF REST Floating in Jetlag with my inner rhythm upside down I slept and wrote and ate, slept and wrote and at, slept and wrote and ate through the day and into the night and didn’t step out

JANUARY 21, SATURDAY

MY $5 40 MINUTE TAXI RIDE When I got off the flight in Helsinki to transfer to the flight to Delhi I was told that since I was leaving the Schengen European area I would have to have my passport

JANUARY 21, SATURDAY

MY $5 40 MINUTE TAXI RIDE When I got off the flight in Helsinki to transfer to the flight to Delhi I was told that since I was leaving the Schengen European area I would have to have my passport

JANUARY 20, FRIDAY

TRAVEL ADVENTURES OF AN OCTOGENARIAN I slept well in the Hotel Tim, only being woken by calls from Becca Nestler who assumed I was in Asheville and then by Lisa Mahy in Everett, Washington to tell me about a man

JANUARY 20, FRIDAY

TRAVEL ADVENTURES OF AN OCTOGENARIAN I slept well in the Hotel Tim, only being woken by calls from Becca Nestler who assumed I was in Asheville and then by Lisa Mahy in Everett, Washington to tell me about a man

JANUARY 19, THURSDAY

MY $37 TWO MILE TAXI RIDE My son Tom dropped me off on Wednesday at the Asheville airport and I had an uneventful flight to Newark Airport and then on to Paris. I took a couple of mild sleeping pills

JANUARY 19, THURSDAY

MY $37 TWO MILE TAXI RIDE My son Tom dropped me off on Wednesday at the Asheville airport and I had an uneventful flight to Newark Airport and then on to Paris. I took a couple of mild sleeping pills

JANUARY 18, WEDNESDAY

SENIOR TRAVEL I want to meditate a little bit on senior travel. Really I am only meditating on my own senior travel and can’t speak for any other seniors. This is written on my first full day in Delhi while

JANUARY 18, WEDNESDAY

SENIOR TRAVEL I want to meditate a little bit on senior travel. Really I am only meditating on my own senior travel and can’t speak for any other seniors. This is written on my first full day in Delhi while

JANUARY 17, TUESDAY

SO MUCH FOR CHEAP FLIGHTS My enthusiasm for Scott’s Cheap Flights has been unbounded this year. Scott’s Cheap Flights has recently changed it’s name to Going.com. So far Scott has only listed flights within or to and from the United

JANUARY 17, TUESDAY

SO MUCH FOR CHEAP FLIGHTS My enthusiasm for Scott’s Cheap Flights has been unbounded this year. Scott’s Cheap Flights has recently changed it’s name to Going.com. So far Scott has only listed flights within or to and from the United

JANUARY 16, MONDAY

AT THE UROLOGIST I didn’t sleep well the night before my visit to the urologist. I mentioned earlier that when a young woman phoned me on Wednesday that she had offered me a February 6 appointment, and then when I

JANUARY 16, MONDAY

AT THE UROLOGIST I didn’t sleep well the night before my visit to the urologist. I mentioned earlier that when a young woman phoned me on Wednesday that she had offered me a February 6 appointment, and then when I

JANUARY 15, SUNDAY

PARIS FLEA MARKET Today is a good day for getting out. The sun is shining in Swannanoa, but it is very cold, 21 degrees. So I went to the Paris flea market, instead, behind Montmartre where Todd and Susie are

JANUARY 15, SUNDAY

PARIS FLEA MARKET Today is a good day for getting out. The sun is shining in Swannanoa, but it is very cold, 21 degrees. So I went to the Paris flea market, instead, behind Montmartre where Todd and Susie are

JANUARY 14, SATURDAY

ALICE NEEL It is a cold, grey winter morning in Swannanoa and in Paris it is mild and raining hard. Since I am in both places at once it is a good time to be inside and luckily there is

JANUARY 14, SATURDAY

ALICE NEEL It is a cold, grey winter morning in Swannanoa and in Paris it is mild and raining hard. Since I am in both places at once it is a good time to be inside and luckily there is

JANUARY 13, FRIDAY

It was good to get back again today to La Samaritaine, the enormous, every elegant department store on the bank of the Seine in Paris. Nine months ago Susie and I discovered it by accident. We had never heard of

JANUARY 13, FRIDAY

It was good to get back again today to La Samaritaine, the enormous, every elegant department store on the bank of the Seine in Paris. Nine months ago Susie and I discovered it by accident. We had never heard of