autour du monde en 888 jours

Au Nebraska, le 18 mai Abstract : we did not travel by train in the US and Canada this year but we saw many trains, mostly freighter trains, often very long ones. We liked them since they are highly symbolic of America’s and Canada's history. In Mexico,...

Abstract : From May 13 to July 8, we drove 7,818 miles across the US and Canada with a compact Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car. Although the rental company had warned us against long distance EV driving, we faced no major difficulty. Finding charging stations...

Abstract : After visiting the US West Coast, the final leg of our North America road trip took us from San Diego, California, to Houston, Texas. It was, frankly, slightly austere with sometimes monotonous landscapes and a very hot and occasionally stormy...

Abstract : We re-discovered San Francisco after 28 years. It remains an extraordinary city , very different than other US towns . The hills, the streetcars, the houses with so many different styles, its vast Chinatown. San Francisco is unique. Nous n’étions...

Les 20 et 21 juin, en venant de Portland, nous avons parcouru le centre et le sud de la côte de l’Oregon, de la bourgade de Neotsu (45° N) à la frontière avec la Californie (42°N). Ceci représente 240 miles, soit 384 km, sur la route fédérale 101 qui...

Abstract : huge, magnificent, awesome … We visited four national parks in the Western United States : Rocky Mountains National Park (Colorado), Grand Teton, Yellowstone (both in Wyoming) and Glaciers (Montana). We marveled at their size, the grandeur...

Downtown Denver Abstract : Denver is not a very large city by US standards, but it is rising. It enjoys more sunny days than Miami according to the locals, and the Rocky mountains are at the city’s doorstep. An attractive city with a vibrant culture and...

Abstract : Chicago prides itself of inventing the skyscrapers in the 1880s and being the capital of American – or World – architecture. Indeed, Chicago’s downtown is spectacular by all means. But the city has a lot more to offer : parks, world-class museums...

A ma mère Marie-Annick (1934 – 2024), fidèle lectrice de ces récits de voyage pendant un demi-siècle, attentive à tous les détails (« même le prosaïque m’intéresse ») . Elle aurait certainement compati aux péripéties racontées ci-après si elle n’était...

Souvenir d'un festival culturel à Oussouye Abstract : Sandwiched between the Gambia and Guinea Bissau, the Lower Casamance region is very different from the center and the north of Senegal. Rivers and mangroves provide hundreds of miles of waterways,...