What I Did On My Summer Vacation 2008 Part Sept – Minivans of France No, really, minivans … that size thing again … Don’t the French have large families? … sure seem cleaner than ours … In many ways, minivans are the quintessential American vehicle, and, if you and I were being forthright and practical [...]
What I Did On My Summer Vacation 2008 Part Six – The Smart Car In The Wild The perfect car for the modern urban driving environment … that counts as the trunk, huh? … This still counts as a Mercedes? … Two Smarts in one space … any color you want, as long as it’s [...]
Your Average French Car …. Comparing the size of your car to everyday objects … special editions – Picasso and xBox? … that design makes sense from the inside … half as thin as Mercedes sheet metal … Your average French car is, as you would expect, small, weird, ostensibly underpowered, demonstrably over-designed , space [...]
Scooters In Paris … Vespas are a rare site … Maxis. high speed, high HP … that sounds like more than a 250cc … Apart from bad weather and the whole crush-space thing, they make a whole lot of sense … As you would imagine, scooters are a widely used for of transportation in France. [...]
The power and the glory that is the TGV … especially when it utterly fails. Chicago to NYC in 6 hours For $125 … Choke the Mister … Even at this speed, Avignon still give me the willies … “They don’t know what the problem is†…
A town with 50,000 people, two traffic lights and seemingly 45 roundabouts Getting from here to there on Roman roads … tailgating as a foreign concept … The yield sign, properly used … bad karma with a scooter …
As potentially some of you might have noticed, I dropped off the scene and was replaced by a robot … had to get away, had a summer vacation to go on. Where? France … yeah, I know, odd choice, but there were a bunch of conspiring factors. Why write about it here? Filler … besides, [...]