Excerpts from a Travel Journal

Day 1 - Paris:
Wow. What a great day. Okay, I haven't slept in like 39 hours but I'm in freakin' France! We'll take a nap and everything will be cool. Just like an hour, 2 hours tops. We couldn't check into the hotel for a couple of hours so we wandered around. It's colder than we expected, but we had breakfast.... I used the French loo which turned out to be a nicely tiled hole in the floor. What an adventure!

Day 2 - Paris:
The nap - okay the 4 hour sleep - threw me off. It's thrown Deeps off too, but it's okay. Thank God the cleaning lady woke us up.

I'm drinking lots of Cafe au Lait to break up the day and to keep going. We walked all the way to the Seine and the Eiffel Tower and back to the hotel. We avoided many piles of dog poo. Oh those Parisians.

Day 3 - Paris:
Okay, I'll admit it. I'm an ugly American. I'm kinda getting tired of the French, with their smoking and lack of leash laws. It's a stinky day. But I'm now the proud owner of a beret!

Day 4 - Paris:
I confessed my feelings of isolation and alienation to my spouse in the wee hours of the morning as we lay awake watching horrible German television. I thought we were sharing a very close moment as a married couple. He told me that I'm the worst travel companion he's ever known.

Day 5 - Paris:
Today I saw a German tourist wearing a beret get pegged in the head with a piece of baguette while sitting on the top level of the Bateaux Mouches. The baguette was tossed by an "angry French youth". In other news, my feet really hurt.

Labels: 2003