Global Wandering

by LaPriel

Breanna likes to explore⎯especially hidden rooms and tiny spaces. Locked doors in palaces, cathedrals and museums annoy her. There could be something fascinating on the other side.

Breanna loves art. We have dozens of photos of paintings by Monet, Van Gogh, Da Vinci and others Breanna took at the Paris museums. She hates when museums disallow photographs. I told her it is so they can sell more books. So we bought books of paintings.

Breanna likes animals more than castles. We went to the Loire Valley to visit the castles and instead spent our time at the zoo. We’ll save castles for our next trip.

Chateau de Chenonceau

Breanna likes to talk and make friends. She chastised me when I cut off her conversation with the motorcyclists from Wales at Mont-St.-Michel because I wanted to go to bed.

Breanna loves the water. She thinks more hotels in France should have swimming pools. She found building sand castles on Normandy’s D-Day beaches more interesting than the rows of white crosses. She was intrigued by the time capsule at the American cemetery and the idea she will be 46 when they open it.

American Cemetery Normandy

Breanna loves to bike, especially in Amsterdam. It offers more of a challenge than biking on a rural Idaho cul-de-sac. I think it would have been better to practice somewhere in between first.

Breanna needs ten hours of sleep at night. Otherwise she gets grumpy. She prefers sleeping in quaint attic rooms in the French countryside than Paris hotel suites. She doesn’t sleep well on planes.

Breanna likes roller coasters. The faster the better. She dislikes her Dad’s rule that he will only ride Space Mountain once per Disney theme park. Only Space Mountain in Orlando remains to be ridden.

Breanna is very giving. She feels for those that live in tents along the Seine River and donates her change to the musicians and beggars at the Paris Metro stations.

Breanna loves to travel, but she also likes to return home.

Pigeon at Mont-St.-Michel