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Tag: Slow lane travel

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

Memories of France

Featured Posts, New England, United States / June 3, 2018

Beginning the Journey Anew

After 19 years in Lexington, we will be moving to Cape Cod three weeks from tomorrow.  I’ll officially be retired from Emerson College the week […] Read More

Featured Posts, France / May 19, 2018

It’s the Little Unplanned Moments that Make Travel Divine

The best travel days are built on serendipity. They turn on small surprises that nonetheless pay big dividends. But always, I find, they require a […] Read More

Featured Posts, France / May 16, 2018

Learning to Travel On My Own

I’ve never been a particularly good solo traveler. But over these last few weeks, after 46 years of marriage,  I’m getting better at it. I’m […] Read More

Featured Posts, France, Uncategorized / May 13, 2018

Aix-en-Provence: A Place to Be, Not Merely See

I could live here. It’s the first thing that comes to mind as I again walk the narrow streets of Aix, listening to laughter carried […] Read More

Featured Posts, France / May 13, 2018

In Aix-en-Provence, Nothing Matters More Than Market Day

Adventurer's Index, France, Letters From Provence, Uncategorized / May 14, 2016

The Magic of Aix-En-Provence

Nowhere else other than Aix am I able to live so completely in the moment. Perhaps it’s the 35-minute walk each morning down narrow streets […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Slow Lane, Uncategorized / July 19, 2015

Slow-Lane Moments in One of Paris’ Most Packed Tourist Sites

Slow-lane travel demands neither backwoods destinations nor dirt roads.  You can even carve slow-lane space in crowded cities and within yards of tourist throngs. That’s […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Letters From Provence / May 25, 2015

A Moment of Respite in the Slow Lane

I confess. There have been times in the last week that I’ve craved life in the slow lane. This morning, after breakfast with my host […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Letters From Provence / April 5, 2015

Ah Aix: There’s Nothing Quite Like Revisiting an Old Flame

It’s a giddy feeling, almost like looking forward to a college reunion when you’ve heard an old girlfriend is on the list of those coming.  […] 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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