Soaked to the Beaune (and other misadventures) - Lyon, France

Jump to the full entry & travel map Lyon, France Today marked the end of our Paris adventure and the start of the next phase of our trip, exploring on our own in a hire car. We picked up the car at Gare de Nord in Paris and endured a very nerve wracking ride through the streets of Paris, out to the Peripherique in our new 407 Peugeot. We made the journey about an hour south of Paris, to the little town of Fontainebleau, to see the chateau that had been the hunting lodge of many French kin

Chat with my cousin

Since we moved to Marikina, I seldom see my cousins anymore. All of us used to live in Makati and our houses are just walking distance from one another. Then one cousin S moved to Quezon City, my sister and I in Marikina and only one left in Makati. And since we don’t have a landline at home, we don’t get to talk much also. Thanks to the internet and cell phone we still get to catch up with one another’s lives. And last weekend, I talked to this cousin J who is planning to buy a car. We checked

Chat with my cousin

Since we moved to Marikina, I seldom see my cousins anymore. All of us used to live in Makati and our houses are just walking distance from one another. Then one cousin S moved to Quezon City, my sister and I in Marikina and only one left in Makati. And since we don’t have a landline at home, we don’t get to talk much also. Thanks to the internet and cell phone we still get to catch up with one another’s lives. And last weekend, I talked to this cousin J who is planning to buy a car. We checked

Freepers taking up arms, predicting race riots if Obama loses

OK, folks, the swamp-dwellers are are off the rails. Look at this post, "Preparing for the "Big What if": Buying a gun." It's full-blown Fear Of A Black Planet hysteria.The purpose of this thread is to help Freepers and lurkers decide upon what the best mode of self defense would be in the case of the breakdown in social order such as happened with the Rodney King riots. Joe Brower owns one of the RKBA (Right to Keep and Bear Arms) ping lists. I tried to convince him to open this vanity because