Love, Death, and Banking

All three have their challenges, especially in Paris.

On Fridays I run excerpts from The Road to Elsewhere, my coming-of-age-travel-memoir-with-funny-drawings. (You can find the first entry here.) But last Friday was my birthday, so I was busy reading the Birthday Cards of the Damned. So my memoir excerpt moved to today, and resumes the story of my road through Paris, London, and god help me, Zagreb, in search of the ultimate destination: a life worth living. The story so far: Young Peter has arrived in Paris, occupied a dorm room at the Alliance Française language school, tiptoed out onto the Boulevard Raspail, and made the first steps on the road to elsewhere. Now what?