Tom had been traveling quite a bit in the years before Annette retired, and Annette…well, let’s just say two months before this trip she used an ATM in Montreal and was surprised to see that it gave her Canadian currency. “How did it know to give us Canadian money and not US money,” she asked me.

You’d think with this disparity in traveling experience and expertise that Tom would be more or less directing the trip, but you’d be wrong. Annette, you see, doesn’t take direction well. Read the book; you’ll understand.