For eight dollars a night, don’t expect more than simple pleasures. The kind of which are probably disappearing, as being too readily available to poor folk and people with kids…

I was hoping to find regular people as I got further south of Paris. And yes, it exceeded my expectations. This town, Sancerre, has not really been a tourist hotspot,…

San Antonio is not in the West, according to Janet’s air conditioning. It is, however, still very friendly–and humid. The Border Patrol officer at Uvalde, who seemed to find us…

This is a bigger part of the country than I remembered. I always had the idea the Great Plains took up most of the land area of the U.S., but…