Welcome to FlyerTalk! I've been reading your trip reports since I found your website where you wrote about your around-the-world trip. Your reports are some of the best that I have read and I always look forward to your trips. I read your first installment on the Viet Nam trip and cannot wait to read more. I also enjoy reading your trips that you take with your mother; in fact, they are required reading for my mother. We often take trips together. We were actually in Paris last fall around the same time that you were there. I swear I am not a stalker - just someone who appreciates well-written, entertaining, and informative reports.
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