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Road 2 Elsewhere by Peter Moore
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Mar 14

Road to Elsewhere Excerpt #45*: Why Did I Leave Paris?

And other bad ideas, explained. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE I LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT PARIS — the language, the fragrant Metro, the vin du table, and my appealingly freckly French teacher. Au revoir to all that. In pursuit of what? I was embracing change, for its own sake, even though I’d already effected a wholesale transformation by crossing the Atlantic…

Paris

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Road to Elsewhere Excerpt #45*: Why Did I Leave Paris?
Road to Elsewhere Excerpt #45*: Why Did I Leave Paris?
Paris

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Feb 22

Do You Have What It Takes to Work at Casa Bonita?

South Park’s Matt Stone and Trey Parker are hiring. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE — In Sunday’s column for the Colorado Sun, I took a look at the latest project by the South Park creators. For years, they had their abrasive cast of devil-children make fun of a Colorado culinary institution named Casa Bonita, and then they bought the place after it failed during the…

Casa Bonita

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Do You Have What It Takes to Work at Casa Bonita?
Do You Have What It Takes to Work at Casa Bonita?
Casa Bonita

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Jan 3

A Writer. His Wife. A Remote Outpost in Colorado. Lots of Snow. Even More Darkness.

A happy new year? Shine on! WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE I’M NOT A SELF-DRAMATIZER. For instance, I rarely imagine myself as the protagonist of classic novels. I have never walked a lonely road to Yarmouth, like David Copperfield. Nor have I had a cage of rats strapped to…

The Shining

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A Writer. His Wife. A Remote Outpost in Colorado. Lots of Snow. Even More Darkness.
A Writer. His Wife. A Remote Outpost in Colorado. Lots of Snow. Even More Darkness.
The Shining

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Nov 4, 2022

France in my Pants

Four days ici, five days la bas. Pretty soon it adds up to a whole country. VINCENT VAN GOGH GOT AROUND. According to a sign I saw on a wall somewhere in France (I might need to check that), the painter lived in thirty-nine places during his thirty-eight years, and that was before the Eurail Pass was invented. Subscribe! Cheaper than Eurail Pass! …

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France in my Pants
France in my Pants
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Oct 24, 2022

Starry-eyed in Starry Night Territory

Sick in Bordeaux, recovering (just like Van Gogh!) in Saint-Rémy, and high in Chamonix. Life is (mostly) good here in France. IS THERE EVER a more wretched feeling that lying sweatily on the tile floor of a strange bathroom in a strange city, and awaiting the next wave of nausea to splash into Lake Toilet? Mais non! I was the victim of an under-heated petrie dish of pumpkin soup at an…

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Starry-eyed in Starry Night Territory
Starry-eyed in Starry Night Territory
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Oct 17, 2022

Drawn and Quartered in France

Walking-eyeball tourism: staring long and hard at the completely obvious. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE I’VE ADDED A NEW AND POTENT WEAPON to my travel arsenal: a pencil. OK, maybe not so new, but plenty potent. My buddy Vincent (Van Gogh) said it all, during his own walking-eyeball moment in Provence: “I’ll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and…

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Drawn and Quartered in France
Drawn and Quartered in France
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Oct 10, 2022

I’m Outta Here. You Come Too.

I don’t know where I’ll end up. Care to join me? WHEN I WAS A SENIOR IN COLLEGE I randomly landed a walk-on part in Chekov’s The Three Sisters. My only responsibility was to stand on stage holding a samovar and looking repressed, so I had plenty of time to listen to the real actor’s dialogue. The entire play seemed to…

Colorado

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I’m Outta Here. You Come Too.
I’m Outta Here. You Come Too.
Colorado

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Oct 3, 2022

Road 2 Elsewhere, Excerpt #43: “I indulge myself a little more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age to do it”

How the legendary diarist Samuel Pepys invented hands-free masturbation, and I avoided getting crushed between protesters and cops on the Rue du Four in Paris. ON THE LAST DAY OF SEPTEMBER,1978, on my calendar, I wrote out a snippet from William Wordsworth: “Five years have passed….” I had been recording notes of my days for sixty calendar pages at that point, with no hint of stopping. And my journal was just about to begin. October…

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Road 2 Elsewhere, Excerpt #43: “I indulge myself a little more in pleasure, knowing that this is…
Road 2 Elsewhere, Excerpt #43: “I indulge myself a little more in pleasure, knowing that this is…
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Sep 26, 2022

That Time I Visited King Charles III’s Place in The Cotswolds

No, he wasn’t there. But I didn’t miss him. Much. A FEW YEARS BACK I joined a college program in Nice, France, as a visiting professor from the real world, to train students in modern journalism practices. But they were more interested in getting drunk and sleeping on the beach, and I can’t blame them. …

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That Time I Visited King Charles III’s Place in The Cotswolds
That Time I Visited King Charles III’s Place in The Cotswolds
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Sep 19, 2022

The Road 2 Elsewhere (+Elk Sex) Now Basking in The Colorado Sun

WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE — Take a look at my first column in a big-deal media startup in Colorado! Greetings, Road2Elsewherians! In part because of your support on this platform, I’ve just begun a gig as a columnist/cartoonist for the Colorado Sun, a reader-supported news and commentary website with a million readers a month. And I couldn’t have done it without your encouragement and support. Find my first column on the site below.

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The Road 2 Elsewhere (+Elk Sex) Now Basking in The Colorado Sun
The Road 2 Elsewhere (+Elk Sex) Now Basking in The Colorado Sun
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