From Brive-la-Gaillarde to Domme and An Incomparable View.

 Four-and-a-half hours after departing Austerlitz station in Paris, my train arrived in Brive-la-Gaillarde. This is a good sized city and clearly not the hamlet I had envisioned, my erroneous assumption having been that only the names of small towns are hyphenated in order to find them more easily.  (“Which Brive is it you’re looking for,…

Traveling Again.

SEATTLE — I’m off on another trip and, while it’s my plan to provide a day-by-day account of this journey, it may be a few days before I can post again. I left Maui yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon on Hawaiian Airlines for Seattle, and will be departing from here this afternoon on Icelandair for the long…