travels with a friend in a "Rob Roy" canoe from Antwerp (Belgium) to Pontoise, just north of Paris.canoe AntwerpBelgiumPontoise Paris two weeks' solo ramble in the mountains of Cévennes (south-central France) hiking and camping CévennesFrancehiking camping honeymoon trip to an abandoned mining camp in Napa ValleyNapa Valley by ship from Europe to New York by train from New York to California
he was ill suffering for a long time it was tuberculosis untreated disease at that timetuberculosis he traveled to find a climate that would be more beneficial for his health. At the age
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. his 'Requiem', the piece he always had intended as his epitaph: Stevenson's tomb on Mt. Vaea