Paris

Paris 2007

A skeptical small-town girl from Southern California finds herself escaping a crazed bus tour led by a skin-tight jeans party girl and sleep-deprived driver to wander the streets of the City of Lights. Face to face with Renoirs, chocolate croissants, and the Eiffel tour, will she claim her place with the aesthetes of history or simply snap a few obligatory tourist poses with the stalwart Aussie at her side?

Paris 2013: The Sequel

Romance and light-hearted traipsing ostensibly behind her, our heroine finds herself returning to Paris for some much needed repose. Will she regain her verve by ogling art and sipping lattes with her sister or does adventure wait on the steps of the Sacre Coeur?

En route to Paris via Dover ferry 10/2007

Sacre Coeur

Notre Dame

P.S. Don't bother calling me the last two weeks of February because I will be in Paris. This time I'm packing a black trench coat with a waist belt, an e-reader, and "Fifty City Walks".