Because it is “in season,” which is to say because it is warm here while it is cold in many other places, the traffic is terrible. It takes a very long time to go rather short distances.

There are Canadians and people from Illinois everywhere. Also, there are many Germans.

The elder folk drive at a maddening pace and then I feel bad for thinking something angry about elderly drivers and then something else happens

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Did you miss me terribly? I missed you! Many thanks to Samantha Powell for her dynamite guest-blogging (I assume she was amazing, as always; I tried not to read the site or my emails, and mostly succeeded!) and to Mallory for sending me plaintive and flattering missives about the gaping hole my absence left in her life, which is all anyone ever wants to receive on vacation. If you emailed me, I have created a…