As my birthday vacation with my mom winds down, this famous Casablanca quote comes to mind. I know when I return to Paris again someday, I will remember this trip fondly. Our last few days in Paris were mostly relaxing, not over-filled with sightseeing and discussin the agri-business in Illinois, but rather, spent leisurely meadering…

For the last seven days, my home has been the River Baroness, a river boat on which we slowly cruised our way down the Seine, from Paris to Normandy. The country side is beautiful, and every so often a village would pop up, with thatch-roofed houses and spired churches sitting up on a hill. As…

As part of our trip to Paris, my mom and I decided to book a tour on one of those fancy river cruises that you often seen advertised during shows like, say, Downton Abbey. Well beyond my normal means of travel, I was afraid I would be the youngest person by a solid thirty years…

Ernest Hemingway said this while living in Paris as a young man during the 1920s. It is not difficult to imagine what the city must have been like during that time, when American writers and artists infiltrated the city, producing some of the best literary works of the twentieth century. The Paris of the “lost…