Crossing Saturday Furlong

At Last - A European Travel Memoir for Those Who Can't Afford to Quit Their Day Job: Are you are a Europhile --or love any kind of international travel-- but having two kids and a job means that spending the summer remodeling a Tuscan villa is not on your possibility list? Then ‘Crossing Saturday Furlong – Lessons of a European Journey’ is the vicarious escape you crave –but without the hard landing. In fact, you just may like the life you come home to a little better than before."Busy?" – "Crazy as usual. You?" So goes the standard greeting in corporate America. Then we have the author, who daydreams in meetings about travels past and planned. But is there more behind his casual veneer? To find out, we trace back to a younger self dodging terrorist’s bombs in Paris. He has walked off his job and persuaded his considerably less impulsive romantic interest to do the same. Passionate and demonstrative, he revels in his freedom, while she guards her feelings—and guards against being left without a room for the night. Looking closer to find her, he is drawn past the surface of their surroundings, and changed in a way that renews his outlook on working life. Fourteen years later, they return to Europe, married and employed, only to discover that some lessons need learning twice