So far I'd seen plenty of pigs and cows in Portugal and Spain, but here in France was the first time I'd seen sheep. Throughout this trip I had been thinking about what my friend Fritz said, and this is a rough quote, "Marco Polo wasn't famous for being the first European to travel to Asia, but for his powers of observation." I was trying to observe everything I could. Change in geography, change in culture, change in temperature, change in cost . . .