In no particular order, the honorable mentions:

• Steak tartare (and Matt’s food poisoning)

• Steak tartare (and Kyle’s love for it)

• Sunset dinner in Vézelay and the diversity of rooms in the La Compostelle Hotel on the bottom of the hill

• An intense thunderstorm during sunrise over the Bourgogne Valley

• Cat fights in dumpsters and giant spiders in Autun

• Torrential downpours and live llamas for sale at a farmers market in Cluny

• DÖNER KEBAB

• The smell and eeriness of 700+ year old cathedrals

• The unexplainable creepy vibe of Bourges

• The organ concert in Chartres that could be heard across the town

• Lisa being freaked out at how cheap Kyle and Anthony’s ticket prices to Europe were while in Laon

• CIS Hostel, Champagne Bar, Hooker boots and Jeremy’s clutch to the back in Reims

  • This being the aftermath of Folkestad trying his hardest not to show he was wasted and forgot about his students

• PARIS - Hotel Sophie Germain in the Latin Quarter down the road from a delicious sushi restaurant with hot towel service, and the ridiculously vast size of the Louvre Museum

• Standing atop multiple Gothic cathedrals with Matt cursing blasphemy

• Lisa (and Anthony) walking slow because we’re shorter than everyone else

• Jeremy puking out of windows and using Anthony’s phone to make international calls to rub it in others’ (Jake S.) face how awesome France is

• Hooker earings (yikes)

• Random record stores in multiple cities (Jeremy) and nighttime cathedral walks in Bourges (Matt)

  F R A N C E

Contributions (by proxy and memory)

Anthony Washington, Jeremy Kutzke, Kyle Carrigan, Lisa Soranaka, and Matt Cote