The Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile or Triumphal Arch of the Star in Paris, France. It is a monument to the fallen solders of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
The name of all French Victories and general are inscribed on the inner and outer surfaces.
You can walk under the circle intersection of twelve roads and pop out in the center – and walk around checking out the twelve roads surrounding – you can take the elevator up to the top – but the line was HUGE – or you can book this in advance and skip the line – remember the tip of doing these at least 30 days in advance.
Were a Metro Detroit, Michigan, couple – second marriages for both of us – and we dream of retiring early to Travel the World. Follow us while we try and figure out to raise our kids, and save to retire.
David is a Robot Programmer, Laura is a Medical Physicist. We put our kids before ourselves for years, saved and ate at home and now after years of all this sacrifice and raising our kids - we are closing in on empty nesting, and we realized we have the opportunity to retire earlier than most and follow our dreams to travel the world.
How are we going to do this? Well we have a lot of ideas, but lets see how it works out. Our original retirement date was January 1, 2021. We are reviewing the option of working another 3 years but prefer to keep the 2021 date, either way we will be retired by 55 years old - still trying to figure out how, but working toward our goal everyday, while enjoying each other and our blended family.
Follow us to see what happens.
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The first time I went there it didn’t know about the tunnel and ran through the five lanes of traffic to get to it! Dumb tourist. Again really great pics. Looks like you guys had decent weather.
Not dumb, just learning – I saw people over there, so I figured there had to be a way! We did have nice weather, hot but sunny and such a wonderful place – next posting about we left Paris and headed to Tokyo! Hopefully you headed back to Paris again soon.
The first time I went there it didn’t know about the tunnel and ran through the five lanes of traffic to get to it! Dumb tourist. Again really great pics. Looks like you guys had decent weather.
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Not dumb, just learning – I saw people over there, so I figured there had to be a way! We did have nice weather, hot but sunny and such a wonderful place – next posting about we left Paris and headed to Tokyo! Hopefully you headed back to Paris again soon.
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