12 years later…
One side benefit to this trip is no TV. TV makes you crazydumb. So do computer games. A word of advice to would-be parents: If you let your six year old daughter watch all twelve seasons of America’s Next Top Model, and let your eight year old son play nerdy on-line games like Adventure/Mech Quest, then every picture you try to take of them will end up looking like this:
Total nerds.
Yesterday we went on a real life Adventure Quest. We tried to find this street:
This week, twelve years ago!
Thanks to a few friendly shopkeepers, and big brother Google, we found the street. Check us out, twelve years later:
Same dumb uncomfortable shoes...
That is awesome!
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i’m giving your blog link to Misadventures of Andi, a Francophile. I hope you keep posting regularly. I’m digging the American in Paris, OMN. I really like the photos.
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That’s really cool, Mr. Neill. FYI – I’m going to be in London next week and part of the week after. Drop me an email if you want to take the Chunnel over and have lunch or something. It’s bmayeroff [AT] gmail [DOT] com.
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Happy Anniversary!
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Awesome.
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I had to double check the shoes. The way you wrote it I thought you meant the SAME PAIR!!! I was like dude likes his chucks.
Great idea. I’d like to revisit places I’ve been with hubs, but, I have to wait another 5 to make it 12.. …hmm…..
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Wow. Just catching up here. What a great series of posts and I love this 12 years later image. I hope the rest of the trip goes as well as this first bit seems to have done.
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Awesome! You’ll have to hang that photo beside the first one!
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Wow, amazing!!! you two have accomplished a lot in 12 yrs!!!
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You might want to double think that whole no TV & Video Game thing.
The discussion of what shows one used to watch as a kid comes up a lot later in life. People bond over TV shows they used to watch. From experience I can tell you that the answer “I grew up without a TV” is a conversation killer. People actually pity you.
Come on Jon, you know it’s not how smart or dumb one is … it all comes down to how well you fit in.
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Hey, that’s really cool.
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i know that i don’t know you – but i love this!! absolutely wonderful.
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