FIELD NOTE 4.41 - French highways.

I have come to the conclusion that the French highway system is more agreeable than that its American counterpart. I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that when one is driving on a French autoroute the sides of the road are not cluttered with random exits and fast food restaurants. There is only the beautiful landscape interspersed with periodic gas stations, restaurants, and pit stops.

And for more than 5 hours I sat in the backseat of Antoine's car listening to he and Sharon talk and watching the landscape pass me by, occasionally noting a blur of pale green as we passed a pit stop. It seemed to go on forever like an American interstate.

But unlike the American interstate, the autoroute from Paris to Nantes was not an unpleasant forever.