Exploring the Sarthe with Le Mans as my base
Exploring the Sarthe with Le Mans as my base
France it is
France it is
Laptop stolen at CDG!
Laptop stolen at CDG!
Chihuly in the GardenThe Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis
Chihuly in the Garden
The Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis
Photo gallery: the ClimatronChihuly in the Garden, Saint Louis
Photo gallery: the Climatron
Chihuly in the Garden, Saint Louis
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Welcome to a part of my online world, relating my happily-homeless interval between years of running a bed and breakfast in Virginia and the years ahead making a new home … where, TBD.


I’m Pat Patterson, Vagabond Pat these days. Single and most often solo, I think I have a great talent for enjoying life, age and budget no matter. I thrive on numerous passions: travel, classical music and opera, healthy gourmet food whether dining out or cooking in for friends old or new, wine, learning and using foreign languages, creating websites, teaching English, reading history … “It takes two” is not so true!
Dreaming of changing your life? Trying something new? Don’t let being alone stop you. Life is short! JUST DO IT.

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2022 Mapped

Included my first visit to Istanbul – among other new destinations

CURRENTLY:  Le Mans

PREVIOUSLY O’Fallon, MO

UP NEXT Paris

Mapping 2023

Including my birthday in Iceland, and revisiting other favorites, while always adding new

Latest posts from France

Exploring the Sarthe with Le Mans as my base
Loving Opera at Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse
A happy return to Montpellier's Opéra-Comédie
A return to sunny Nîmes in the Gard


Latest posts from Other Travel

Chihuly in the Garden
Photo gallery: the Climatron
A 10-Day Self-Drive Itinerary for Iceland
Eldhestar and Fálki!
Seeing friends in the seaside resort of Deal, Kent

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