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On May 18, 2008 Ruth and I flew out of Albuquerque to Atlanta, on to
London and then to Nice, France. We stayed over night and the next day
caught the ferry to Bastia, Corsica. We stayed on the island until June 1,
then flew back to Nice and stayed until June 3, then back to soggy England
and connecting flight toe USA June 4.
Always with journeys far away lands, it seems it almost
never happened. Our friends ask us what it was like, and in a way both Ruth
and I are stuck for an easy answer because it was an experience in a very big
way. The truth is the journey fulfilled the only prerequisite of
worth, ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE.
It was romantic because the south of France and Corsica
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always beautiful and I was with Ruth every moment and she is beautiful. We
saw beauty, ate beauty, drank beauty and breathed beauty.
It was romantic because I saw old friends and we
remembered beauty together.
How can that be not good?
It was an adventure because nothing I planned worked out
the way it was supposed to...it was an adventure because we got soaking wet
and lost on cold streets...it was an adventure because all the ways it had
once been had changed to something else...it was an adventure because I let
go of old dreams and hope new ones will come...it was adventure because at times
we wondered if we would ever get home with our skin or a nickel between us.
It was an adventure because it changed our lives in ways
yet to be seen.
In three weeks I took 1178 photographs. Thank God for the
digital revolution which spares the expensive and painful process of having
too many stupid photographs that no one will ever look at.
As it is, below are 398 clicks of our all too short
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Ajaccio. 73 to 80 a trip out the end of peninsula Isle de Sanguinaire.
81 to 87 meal at Diana's house with family. 88 to 95 a trip into the market
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market and a tour around Ajaccio. 218 to 236 Meeting Rollie Lucaroti and
Colette Fournier in Ajaccio for lunch and tour of Colette's studio. 237 to
243. Meeting up again with Pierre and Mary Jeane at Palmenti, the night Ken
fell in the ditch. 244 to 248. Flying out of Corsica fort Nice. 249 to 294.
Our tour of Nice to the Contemporary Museum of Art and a walk through the
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