This is one of my favorite pictures. Those are my feet on the bottom. I'm paragliding -- floating effortlessly and silently above Interlaken, looking at the Alps in the distance. A beautiful day and a peaceful experience.
This is the guy who set us up with our place in Monterosso. He works all summer getting people into his apartments, then takes the rest of year off to travel.
The main line was long at the Louvre so I remembered a side entrance that we used a couple years ago that is for tour groups. You can see it behind us in the above picture. We just walked right pretending that we were part of the junior-high tour group ahead of us. 
After the Louvre we checked out the Catacombs. It's a long walk below Paris, about 5 stories down. This is where they put the bones of about a million people in the late 1700s. I've never seen so many skulls, strangely interesting.
Just after graduation I loaded up my Explorer with everything I own and am headed to the Oakland airport. I'll be parking in the American Airlines employee parking lot thanks to my Aunt, meeting up with Steve, and headed for Europe! As of the date of this posting we don't have an itinerary, just plane tickets in and out of Paris -- that's it! No reservations, no plans, nothing.
However, after we returned I went back to this posting and added the itinerary:
June
16 Paris
17 Paris
18 Paris
19 Nice
20 Nice
21 Cinque Terre
22 Cinque Terre
23 Cinque Terre
24 Interlaken
25 Interlaken
26 Munich
27 Munich
28 Prague
29 Prague
30 Amsterdam
July
1 Amsterdam
2 Paris
3 Paris
