The Grand Tour Redux

Passages: Cycle Tales of American Tourists in Europe

A Journey Through Time and Fiction

Walter Bowne
12 min readApr 27, 2024

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Photo collage. From the author and Lanis Rossi (used with permission ). CanvaPro.

Earlier this year, my Great Buddy Dan asked me over beers, “Are you still polishing those old turds?”

He meant my stories for Overland to the World, a collection I started when my first daughter, Katherine, was a newborn. She is now…

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Walter Bowne

This “trophy husband” writes fiction, poetry, narrative non-fiction, travel essays, music essays, book reviews, and essays about his belly button.