Comments for Live Anywhere: Paris

Comment on We’ll miss you Paris by Linda

Linda — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:23:23 +0000

Enjoy your last weekend in Paris! We will see you at the airport on Monday night!

Comment on We’ll miss you Paris by Liz Barton

Liz Barton — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:42:29 +0000

Best of luck and save travels home. Enjoy your last few days in Paris…
Liz

Comment on November in a flash by Linda

Linda — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:46:51 +0000

Enjoyed reading the blog! I can’t wait to see everyone again soon!

Comment on La visite d’une vie by Richard

Richard — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:50:10 +0000

I was very interested in what you said about the temporal aspect of memories from travel. I have to admit that the memory-to-image ratio for me is very high … I can look at a particular image, and remember exactly what was happening at the time I took it. In fact, if I set up a ‘collection’ or ’set’ in flickr, and didn’t put all the shots I had taken of that place, I start to get itchy for seeing the ones I left out!

Comment on La visite d’une vie by Deborah Johnson

Deborah Johnson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:59:19 +0000

My favorite “live in another country long enough and it all becomes clear” story has to do with the bus that I took from the Aoyamas to work everyday in Toyama. By the last day I was taking the bus I could understand every stop, every announcement, fares, etc. except for the first thing the driver said “Sori-wa wan man bus desu.” I finally asked Midori what he was saying. She was surprised because she said it’s English. “This is a one-man” bus meaning there was no conductor or ticket taker. Eighteen months on the same bus and I still didn’t get it.

Comment on La visite d’une vie by Liz Barton

Liz Barton — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:57:47 +0000

I agree with this post. I am glad you are lucky enough to trully live somewhere outside MASS and trully get to be fully into another culture. People need to travel more, and get out of their comfort zone, and experience something new/different than the norm. way to go! Cheers!!

Comment on La visite d’une vie by Linda

Linda — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:18:49 +0000

Ken, I enjoyed your blog very much and hope that you, Rachel and Sonja can have many more experiences like this one! It is true that visiting somewhere for a short time can give false impressions.
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page”!

Comment on La visite d’une vie by Dexter

Dexter — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:20:13 +0000

This entry reminded me of the Paul Bowles novel “Sheltering Sky” in which a distinction is made between a tourist and a traveler: “the difference is partly one of time….Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home.”

Comment on O-BA-MA!!!!! by Linda

Linda — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:38:19 +0000

It was a wonderful visit that I will remember for a lifetime! Thank you so much for having me!!!

Comment on Eating well by Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:56:32 +0000

Nice long story, great to hear from you and what you’re doing!