Travels with Valerie

We’re here in the gorgeous town of Antibes now and so I want to talk to you about laundry. Our little apartment has a laundry room with a sign that says we can only use the washer and dryer between 10 and 7 pm, which seemed reasonable until I started doing the actual laundry. I […]

Above is the initial encounter between Sam and Tom’s dog, Skip. Look at that body language – smart assessment, Skip! I have to give that dog bonus points for correctly gauging Sam’s ulterior motives and trying to get some distance from Sam. Below is poor Skip – just a few hours later, looking gravely concerned […]

We’ve moved ourselves over to Toulouse for the final nights of our tour. We’re all checked into our hotel but it’s dark out so I have nothing to report. But I want to talk to you about a little city called Albi, population 45,000. Albi is where Tom, our Road Scholar guide, lives. Because Tom […]

I spent quite a long time trying to figure out this bathroom sign and I got nowhere but I’m open to your interpretations. This was the sign for a single entry/single sink area bathroom. Next to the sink, there was a single stall for women and then, in a cubby area off to the left […]