Paris Unexpected, A Modern Industrial Town

One of the shocks to my mind on the trip from the airport to the hotel besides the molecule thin misses of pedestrians and other vehicles was that Paris actually produces things. There is a poster from a company that inspires me, but I must disagree with said poster to my sadness. In Paris, I actually saw people working very hard on the roads. In the United States I have only seen 2 or 3 instances in my whole life where the sign "Men Working" on the highway didn't make me think that it was written for a comedy. One of my college roommates said that when he worked for the highway department that he would smoke a joint or two daily to relieve the tedium. Far be it from me to even suggest that such a thing would go on in these wise and enlightened times, but sometimes my evil suspicious mind wonders.

Back to the trip in Paris. We were moving a little fast, what you saw on the video was a reasonable version of what we experienced in slow motion.

Larry in his parka and I on the edge of death rode to the hotel.