| Various adventures whilst I was living in
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| I had the opportunity to take a helicopter ride
around Montlhery. It was part of a gimmick of the Service de
Promotion de Ventes where I worked at the time.
Random customers would receive a ticket for a ride around the
countryside. |
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| La Defense I would go rollerblading at La Defense
on Sunday mornings. It was ethereal - enormous plazas and open
spaces, with no people. There is a lot to be said
for the statist-diktat approach to planning. Certainly nothing
like this could be done in the States, what with all the whiny-ass
groups that try to stop things. |
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| At the time, I was really thinking about
juxtaposition of visual textures |
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| Arc de Triomphe |
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| Versailles |
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Tricolores |
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| Louvre |
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| Water Sculptures |
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| Les Halles |
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| Trocadero |
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| RER |
| For a kid who grew up in a podunk cowtown like
Houston, the RER is damned impressive |
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They had the Americas Cup in Paris that summer.
Louis Vuitton was making a new suitcase to cart the thing around.
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| Of course, you can take the boy out of Texas but you
can't take the Texas out of the boy. The second time I lived in
France, I was more mobile. Avenue Foch always had the best
parking. |
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