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Confession...

Mea culpa. Most of my reports to check in during a two-and-one-half month séjour in France in late 2013 were chronicled on FaceBook. I was fickle here...

À Ventenac, près de Carcassone

This afternoon we will ride bikes on the Canal du Midi with Bob and Claudie.

The house overlooks Carcassone.

On France Time

At Charles de Gaulle Airport, ready to roll!

Travels in France 2013

Come with us from Paris through central France to the Dordogne, then along the Pyrénées and into Provence.

The Morning After...

A Happy Birthday.


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Life is Good

Driving the California coast along spectacular Hwy 1.

A Thought

I like this from Mark Twain: 

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

It is indeed better for me not to know that I am not supposed to be able to do something.

Merry Christmas 2012

and Happy New Year 2013.

Okefenokee Swamp & Suwannee River

Way down upon the Upper Suwannee River, we were far, far away from civilization on a seven-day paddling trip. We went with a small, congenial Sierra Club group. In the first six days of our week-long trip our small group saw only two other people, quietly fishing. Due to some stiff head winds, we paddled to exhaustion and after dinner tumbled unconscious into our sleeping bags--good because I sleep poorly on the ground. Our effort was well-rewarded. I can close my eyes and bring back star-studded skies and the sounds that called to us throughout the night.

We looked spiffy the day before the trip.

Starting out in the Okefenokee, the glistening black waters were marbled by streaks of flaming amber. The cypress and tupelo trees gnarl into animate shapes that, from the corner of one’s eye, seem to move. We landed on beaches of white sand that was soft and fine, vestiges of this area’s geologic history as ocean bottom.

Mornings were misty and magical. We swam in the river, but not at dawn or dusk. That is when alligators feed.

See some of the Suwannee with us…

Slideshow

P.S. The knowledgeable trip leader was Patrick Nichols of Patrick’s Paddling Adventures. http://patrickspaddlingadventures.com/