This adventure started in September of 2008 and ended in January 2009 in Paris. It was a gift to myself to celebrate 60 years on earth...this time. It was part of the 2008=60 tour along with the 2008 Scooter Diaries. I was not blogging then, but just sending emails to friends. Some days are missing. Hopefully I will recover them. I blog my adventures now as much as a way to store the story on line, so I can find them, as much as it is to share with others.







We got up early today as we where going to go catch the boat to St. Tropez and hang out with the movies stars, rich people and our land lord.  Unfortunately on  9 oct the boat quit running everyday and this was one of the days it did not go.  So, we walked out on the street and caught the next bus out of town.  It was going west on the coast to a little town call Aegay and was cheap.
It was market day in Agey, alas a small market as it is a small town.  We where lucky as we found some paperback books in english for 3 eur apiece.  If  you can find them in a store they are 11 Eur or about $15.  So we loaded up on those.  Had coffee and started walking back towards our home town.  Had not intention of walking all the way but a good part of it and then catch the bus.  Well, that worked about as good as the boat to St. Tropez.  We found that the "frequent" bus was not frequent from 11 to 13:45.  So we walked until we got tired, bought some lunch stuff and sat a bus stop in the country and had lunch.
The area is where the US troops landed in April 1944.  Uniformed Americans love to bash the French, but they still very much honor the American soldiers who fought in WW II.  Here are just two monuments in the small town of Agey honoring the Americans.  And yes no email would be complete without Kenny's Political Opinion De Jour.......wish we did the same with our soldiers from the present "conflicts".

Ken Wilson
"Certainly, travel is more than seeing of sights, it is a change that goes on deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."