Virtual Vacation

I have a friend who is heading off to Paris for a long vacation. I guess she wanted to see how the other half — the people who survive in cold parts of the world — live. My Paris experience was in February, standing at the top of the Eiffel Tower on a cold, clear winter night, the city below me. The halls of the Louvre are astoundingly empty during that time as well. Is this a big, crazy idea that will take a lot of time and effort and smarts? Of course. This isn’t, of course, about Paris.