“As is often the case, my favorite part of this journey was just the mundane conversations we had along the trail and around the dinner "table." How often in life do you get the chance to have a dinner conversation in three different languages, or to discuss the implications of Franco & the Spanish Civil War and then talk about French cinema a few minutes later? How often can you make people from five different countries laugh? It´s trips like this that make me feel so inordinately lucky. I doubt I deserve it, but I do appreciate it.”