Vive le Dash

My Godfather is an amazing man. I have found myself in foreign lands under strange roofs a few times in my life and it is never particularly easy. This man has gone above and beyond in the making you feel at home and supported department. So when mentioning that he had to get a car across the Netherlands to his brother, Ashley and I were eager to offer our help. A way to repay a little bit of his kindness and see the sights along the way? Perfect. Besides, the Netherlands isn't exactly a big country and Google maps said it would only be a 2 hour drive! Perhaps I should have added a little weight to my godfather's hesitation to just hand me the keys and let me jump on the road. The vehicle in question turned out to be an electric utility van, but so what? This is Europe and I had already noticed the charging stations at every gas station along the highway. Evening December 21st: We pick up the car  and, with what I assumed was an excess of caution, drove it to a nearby charging ...

 For no good reason it has been wayyyyyyyyy too long since our last update, but here we are. Our 2020 year in review: All the way back in January, when Covid was around but not yet a serious concern for me, I started my second semester of school. After all our Christmas gallivanting around Europe it was nice to be back in Nice and to see all of my classmates. We were still able to take a couple trips in early 2020, one to Bordeaux and a very quick weekend in London. Within days of coming back from London, France shut down and my University closed. You were no longer permitted to leave your house except for groceries or to go to a pharmacy. If you did leave your house, you had to wear a mask the entire time and carry around a hand written note swearing you were being a good, considerate citizen to the republic of France. The risk of not following these rules was a 500 € fine. Nice distributed 2 mask to anyone living there and patrolled the streets with police and (supposedly) d...