Cold and happy by the River Seine, 1/04
In 15 years together and eleventy-hundred journeys, our biggest travel coup (so far) has been:
Winning a trip to Paris.
A few years back, I signed up for a worthy local charity‘s $100 travel raffle. Hoping to boost my luck with the volunteer staff, I doodled cartoons of Parisian monuments all over my fax entry form; after all, who likes to look at stacks of boring white paper all day?
My doodle gamble paid off, and we won:
Free direct-to-Paris airfare on Air France and a stay at the ultra-swank Four Seasons George V…for two nights.
Exciting? Well, sure. Practical to travel 12 hours from Southern California for two nights? Not so much.
So, we expanded our trip to a winter tour of Europe:
Brussels→Bruges→Amsterdam→London→Paris
