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Tag: Chamonix

Featured Posts, France, Slow Lane, Uncategorized, United States, With Kids / August 8, 2019

Traveling With A Kid? Rent Apartments, Not Hotel Rooms

DINARD, France — It took me four tries and 15 minutes to log onto the Wifi in our stately, spacious apartment in this Brittany beach […] Read More

Featured Posts, France, Uncategorized, With Kids / July 31, 2019

On the Road, Be Open to Surprises. And Make Your Own.

CHAMONIX, France — Let’s be honest: Most trips come with some bumps. This one started inauspiciously on July 21 when a broken luggage-loading conveyor belt […] Read More

Featured Posts, France, Galleries, Slow Lane, Uncategorized / January 11, 2019

Memories of France

Adventurer's Index, France, Galleries / January 24, 2015

Hills to Great Heights: Eastern France from the Sea to the Alps

Adventurer's Index, France, Slow Lane, Uncategorized / June 29, 2014

A Lasting Lesson Across Cultures: Community Counts

It’s hard — perhaps impossible — to wrap six months overseas in a neat bow. I can’t provide you with “Five Ways to Find Friends […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Slow Lane, Uncategorized / June 27, 2014

Tempted to LItter on the Trail? Read This

Think it’s OK to bury those orange peels on the trail? Or toss out a piece of chewing gum? Chamonix mag’ has this to say […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Slow Lane / June 27, 2014

In Chamonix, Choosing a Trail’s Direction Is No Small Matter

The next time we hike the Grand North Balcony trail above Chamonix, it won’t be by accident. We’ve learned by luck and happenstance that the […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Slow Lane, Uncategorized / June 25, 2014

Playing Hide-and-Seek with the Giant of the Alps

Kathy intercepted me as I walked out the bathroom door. “You have to come see Mont Blanc,” she said. It was barely light out. “I […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Slow Lane, Uncategorized / June 24, 2014

Lost in Translation Once Again: To Dread or Not to Dread?

The president of the community of villages in the Chamonix valley offers greetings to visitors using public transportation.  It’s a great system: free bus and […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Slow Lane, Uncategorized / June 23, 2014

An Old-Fashioned, 5-Course French Meal Beneath Mont Blanc

“The mountains are so silent,” Kathy said as we finished the fourth course — the cheese — of a quite exceptional five-course meal at Hotel […] Read More

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I’ve never measured a successful trip by how many destinations I can circle on a map or check off a Bucket List.  To me the best journey, and the best ravel, moves more like a good conversation. It ebbs and flows. It rarely rushes, but it’s also animated and unpredictable. It is filled with banter and laughter, and invites participants to linger rather than march forward inexorably like a tightly wound clock. Want to have dessert?  A second glass of wine? A detour in a back-alley artisan’s shop? A pause at an overview by the side of the trail? Why not. Read more. 

 

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