We spent a portion of several days driving through scenic countryside, visiting the studios of talented artists.
In between he managed to take some time with his colleague Fabien Knoll, currently stationed in Madrid, to roam through the Spanish countryside visiting new collections and quarries.
We had explored the countryside, visited stilt villages on the edge of abandoned farms, and climbed into a rotting boat to see the "floating villages" of Tonle Sap Lake, a picturesque euphemism for the poorest villages of them all.
In 1855, in his early 20s, he left for the New World, and, after befriending a Quaker archeologist he met on his travels, he ended up riding on horseback through the Mexican countryside, visiting Aztec ruins and dusty pueblos.
Sunny skies and blue waters were to be followed by a night or two in Palermo and a few days in the countryside visiting Fabrizia Lanza, director of the Anna Tasca Lanza cooking school, where the main activity is picking and cooking vegetables from the garden for every meal.
In Wollstonecraft's novel Mary: A Fiction, written in 1788, a young single woman is adventuresome enough to travel abroad, but ends up back in the English countryside, visiting the sick, comforting the poor and educating the young.
Knowing these things gets Stacy McCoy out of bed every morning and out into the countryside, visiting Afghani women and farmers to offer new agricultural techniques and hardier seeds.
In order of preference, they: dine out (75%), shop (72%), sightsee (69%), tour the countryside and visit historical places (tied at 53%) and visit art galleries and museums (38%).
One morning this spring, Claudia Cox, a registered nurse in Jackson, Miss., drove toward the countryside to visit some patients.
