For the past two weeks I was able to luxuriate and learn the meaning of “slowing down” as I drove from the hub of Paris into the lush green countryside of Normandy and then along the jewel-like ocean water coastline of Brittany. While my cares slipped away with each kilometer, I settled into what would…
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Related Links:Go West Young Journalist!Up-Set Annual Summer Membership PartyLive TV in the AlleyMagic, magic!New Century Networks bonanza August 8, 1997 Go West Young Journalist! SUMMER IS ZOOMING BY and I’m taking off the last two weeks of August with the Alley to Valley Rally ’97. I will be uploading travel journal entries daily to my…