I can remember growing up and meeting people that likely were screwing the same nut on the same bolt for the rest of their lives and I thought to myself: "I would rather be dead than do that."
So, I lived a much more adventurous life always eventually traveling the world and starting businesses and things like this and getting married and having children and traveling even around California or the U.S. whenever I could doing interesting things.
Then at age 50 I almost died but the Angels that came to me when I thought I was dying that day in Fall of 1998 told me as they formed a Circle around me they said in unison: "You aren't going to die your life will get better now!" They said this over and over and over again until every cell in my body believed them.
I have always thought since then that because the angels Convinced every cell in my body that I wasn't going to die then that I have somehow lived on and on now almost 27 years this May of 2025. Because when I got better it was May of 1999. Then in the fall I took my mother and 10 year old daughter to Europe to Scotland, England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and as far as Aosta, in Italy.
This was my first trip to Europe when I was 51 with my mother (who was still alive then) and my then 10 year old daughter who is now mid 30s and married with a daughter herself.
We met my son who was then 25 in Munich, Germany with his friend who had just gotten his Bachelor's degree in physics from UCSC then around 1999. I rented a motorhome that slept 6 people and since there were 5 of us this worked out fine for us.
My wife and baby daughter who was 2 1/2 years old decided to stay in California for this trip.
However, in 2009 we went to Paris, France. At the time I was angry we were going to Paris because that didn't sound fun to me at all.
However, I was completely wrong and I loved Paris and the Eiffell Tower and especially Versailles which was really amazing. However, I couldn't breathe very well in the Louvre so I could barely get out of there without passing out from not enough fresh air. At that time they didn't move the air or change it much because they didn't want to erode any of the paintings. So, as a tourist you are made to suffer because of this. Also, I was very surprised just how small the Mona Lisa painting actually is.
But, we stayed in Saint-Germain-en-Laye which is an area of Paris. But if you stay there it is better if you don't rent a car because you might not be able to park it unless you stay in a 5 star hotel which can be very expensive. We stayed in a place called "The Hotel De Suede" which was good for us and they served meals there too which was nice. So, we took taxis or rode buses to wherever we wanted to go in Paris this way and eventually rode the TGV which is the bullet high speed train to Nice which is near Monte Carlo.
So, if you stay in Saint-Germain-en-Laye to be nearer to the Seine River or Eiffel Tower or buses to Versailles just remember renting a car might not be a good idea while staying there. IN Nice we stayed in the Roosevelt Hotel which is named after president Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the 1930s and 1940s until he died as president during World war II. by the way Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a whole section of Paris called that name and not just a commune
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