Paris 2006

I started my international exploration career back in January of 2006 with this 2-week trip to Paris (which I'm going to keep offsite). I highly recommend the Catacombs, and Paris in general, as a great introduction to the world of what happens to be out there beyond your particular city or country. It's easy, fun, interesting, and the locals are generally pretty helpful even if you don't speak French.

Introduction: A Wonderful Welcome

Chapter 1: Into the Catas
Chapter 2: Mommy, what’s a Cataphile?
Chapter 3: Bones, Bones, Dry Bones
Chapter 4: Low Art
Chapter 5: High Art
Chapter 6: On Martha Stewart and Abandoned Rail Tracks
Chapter 7: 30 Hours Under Paris, Part 1
Chapter 8: 30 Hours Under Paris, Part 2
Chapter 9: The Bastille and the Bell Tower
Chapter 10:Walking in the Banlieues, Squatting in Paname
Chapter 11: The Queen’s Chamberpot
Chapter 12: Layers

Intro

I've been some great places above, around, and below New York. But as interesting as it is, New York's only one town. For the past few years I've been lucky enough to get to travel to several other world cities to see the hidden spaces above, around and below these urban areas as well. I've posted some of these on my various travel blogs, published others elsewhere, and kept some to myself. I'll be amalgamating most of these stories here over the next few months, as well as writing plenty of new ones, as I have embarrassingly failed to write up anything from my last 2 and a half trips which have taken me from from the catacombs of Odessa to the underground rivers of La Paz.