Year of Tour Eiffel

Posted on January 2, 2013 by thetravelingpear

Winter. Snow. Eiffel Tower. Sounds magical right? Ever experience the Eiffel in Winter? Nope…neither have we. If you said yes, then you’re a lucky one! We’ve seen her in Autumn when the days gradually grow shorter and gold leaves tumble in the breezes beneath her. In early Spring when she towers ever so slightly under […]

Happy 2nd blog birthday…Welcome 2013

Posted on January 1, 2013 by thetravelingpear

Saying goodbye to the year of transition–2012. From Texas to Maine. We look back at our greatest highlights… Photos of Versailles & Chasing Chateaux: Marie Z. Johnston Adventures of a Shepherdess in Normandy: Stanzes Blabla

snow silliness

Posted on December 29, 2012 by thetravelingpear

snow a : precipitation in the form of small white ice crystals formed directly from the water vapor of the air at a temperature of less than 32°F (0°C) —Webster Dictionary. b: something that is radical, cool, or otherwise awesome. something that is snow is generally the shit, being top score, bitchin, etc. the word is derived […]

Christmas in Maine

Posted on December 24, 2012 by thetravelingpear

When we left Maine over a month ago for Texas it was still Fall, now that we or rather (I) have returned it’s instantly Winter. How did that happen? Guess I have been gone a month! Flying in from south Texas with temps well over 78F, I greeted the cold like a long lost friend. […]

où êtes-vous

Posted on November 6, 2012 by thetravelingpear

Où êtes-vous? I ask, where are you? On a warm tranquil beach, azure waves lapping at your feet? Possibly you’re lost in a gaze, entranced by a glittering iron beauty they lovingly call Tour Eiffel? Maybe you’re winding your way through a castle’s labyrinth of corridors searching for that one hidden door–a door surrounded in myth–that […]