Carpe diem: menhirs to posts

Our original destination was Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. I wanted to show Rick the menhirs which could date back sometime between 5000 and 2000 BCE. I've often thought of it as a poor woman's Stonehenge:

We dropped the dog off at Furry Friends so he could run and play with Dexter and Riley.

Lunch was going to be a first stop and with the idea of finding a restaurant in some Swiss village UNTIL we neared Ikea and salmon entered my mind and meatballs Rick's.

We took the Aubonne exit.

With full tummies we realized that the drive to Yverdon and back would leave us just enough time to glance at the menhirs and rush back to pick up the dog.

"Let's go to Lausanne and walk along the lake," Rick suggested, but as we were driving up and down the hills we saw a sign for a Roman ruin.

Another plan change and we were so glad we did.

A whole village, a marketing town of over 2,000, had lived there during Roman times. They were then on the lake front and besides all the foundations of buildings and information about the village, there were the posts that once had supported the dock where produce was loaded and unloaded.

We spent the remainder of our time wandering the ancient streets, now mere dirt baths, reading the information. I could just imagine Marcus calling to Atticus and saying "Have you finished that bill of lading yet?" or Flavius saying, "I've got to get home to dinner. Julia said if I were late one more time she'd kill me."

So often with Rick we may start out with one idea or destination and ending up at another. Last year after a research trip to Lucerne, Rick getting off the route to check a golf club. Where did we end up?

Heidiland of course. Unlike many theme parks, I really felt that any minute Peter would come by with his goats and grandfather would serve me a bowl of goat milk and crusty bread.

And today on a errand to return books at the library and eat a sandwich by the lake, we ended up with a full meal at Cottage behind the Duke's tomb.

And why not be flexible? It's a carpe diem way of living and we carpe diem with great enjoyment.

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