We’ll be flying to Istanbul on Monday, so this will be my last post from Canada. Here are a few tidbits I learned this month: There are no specific words in French for seventy, eighty, or ninety. For example, 95 is quatre-vingt quinze, i.e. 4-20 15. So you have to do some multiplication and addition…
On Monday, August 11, we rented a Dodge Durango – an enormous SUV which was an upgrade because of limited remaining inventory – in Montreal and drove nearly 350 miles to Bar Harbor, Maine. This was our second time to Maine. The first was in August 2006 when Wayne and the kids and I drove…
The movie Race is being filmed in front of our building right now! The building management notified tenants earlier this week that the movie, a Jesse Owens biopic, would feature our building which is supposed to look like a Nebraska hotel in the 1930’s. A couple men knocked on our door about 8 pm and…
We took a 5-hour train ride from Toronto to Montreal on Friday, August 1. It was a full train (although there were assigned seats like on a plane) with a line of people stretched all around the inside of the train station waiting to get on. We found out it was because it was a…
Travels with Charlie and Laurel 