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Paris Day 11 – D’Orsay and the Gay Pride Parade

Paris 11 • Travels

This reveler was WAY tall. Quite the costume too. Today we visited the Musee D’Orsay and then attended the Paris Gay Pride Parade. The museum was a bit of a letdown (more details on that in a moment), but the parade was something else. Paris is a very gay city! Lots and lots of pictures to see so let’s get going.

We got a late start in the morning, but I figured with the parade in the early evening, we’d still have plenty of time to visit the Museum. We got there and the line was a mile long. We were discouraged, but figured that waiting in line was our best option as any other museum would likely take just as long to get to.

0 comments Wednesday 29 Jun 2011 | Mike

Paris Day 10 – Giverny

Paris 11 • Travels

Now here's a really pretty picture of the lily pond. Someone should paint it... Ah, the French countryside. Today we leave the hustle and bustle of Paris and board a train for Giverny. Giverny is a quiet little village (if you don’t count the tourists) where Claude Monet once resided and is also the site of many of the inspirations for his paintings. It’s going to be a calm (except for the tourists) and beautiful day. Come along!

0 comments Monday 27 Jun 2011 | Mike

Paris Day 9 – Morts, Macy, & Monuments

Paris 11 • Travels

A wall of skulls and bones in the pale light of our LED lamps. Alright, the third time is the charm, right? Today, we make our third attempt to visit the catacombs. This time we’ll arrive before the attraction opens, and hopefully the lines won’t be too long. Afterwards, we head over to check out the Eiffel Tower, a required visit for any tourist in Paris! Oh, and we also run into a famous celebrity in the streets…

0 comments Sunday 26 Jun 2011 | Mike

Paris Day 8 – Sacre Coeur and Sex Shops

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One of the few non-explicit works of art in the Musée de l'Erotisme. Today we head up to the basilica summit in Montmartre to check out Sacre Coeur and the artist square, then we head down into Pigalle to check out the seedy sex shops and the Museum of Erotic Art. Yes, I took pictures…

0 comments Friday 24 Jun 2011 | Mike

Paris Day 7 – Fête de la Musique

Paris 11 • Travels

Kim and I posing together in front of a fountain. Today we walk some more of Paris (always with the walking!), attempt to visit the Catacombs (we fail – again), and then attend Fête de la Musique which is a summer solstice event where there’s live music on every street corner in Paris. We’ll have a grand time! Come along!

0 comments Thursday 23 Jun 2011 | Mike

Paris Days 5-6: Emergencies, Busted Knees, and L’Orangerie

Paris 11 • Travels

One of the many really cool steam punk style sculptures and art in one of the galleries around Place des Vosges. It's Captain America! Catchy title eh? Well plenty went down during these two days of our trip. Well laid plans were turned to dirt and much needed knees were badly hurt. Still, after it all, we managed to have a grand old time. Read on to find out what happened!

0 comments Tuesday 21 Jun 2011 | Mike

Paris–Day 4: The Pompidou

Paris 11 • Travels

This photo isn't out of focus, the painting is. It literally hurts your eyes to look at. Fascinating... Today we’re off to the Pompidou: a fantastic modern art museum where the building itself is a work of industrial art. Come with us and see what weird and fantastic things we discover!

0 comments Sunday 19 Jun 2011 | Mike

Paris Days 1-3: Walking around Paris

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Kim looking at the padlocks secured to the bridge railing. They're put there by lovers as part of a new Parisian fad. We are off to Paris again! My girlfriend Kim and I are off to the city of lovers for two weeks. This entry covers our flight over and how we spent our first full day in the grand city. Click to read more!

0 comments Friday 17 Jun 2011 | Mike

DADT Poll detractors can’t do basic math

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It wasn’t long after the release of the Pentagon report on repealing DADT before those opposed to repealing DADT were out with their right-wing talking points about how the soldiers “actually” don’t want the law repealed. It even comes from a “law firm” so they must have gotten their facts right, right? Wrong.

0 comments Monday 06 Dec 2010 | Mike

Spain 2010 – Day 9: Lugo & Santiago de Compostela

Spain 2010 • Travels

Many of the restaurants in Santiago had displays out front showing the quality of their meat and seafood selections. This is the display at the place where I had the octopus. Greetings and welcome to day 9! We’re heading into the twilight of my journey through Spain, but there’s still plenty yet to see. Today we make a stop in Lugo on our way to Santiago de Compostela. Lugo is the home of one of the finest and best preserved Roman walls in all of Europe. Santiago is the final destination of the Way to St. James pilgrimage. Let’s see what Spain has in store for us today!

0 comments Wednesday 29 Sep 2010 | Mike

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