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This is the work of Crumb’s I keep thinking about on the summer afternoon I arrive in a medieval village in the ��é����ԲԱ�� region of southern France.

Or, more accurately, its mountain setting was inspired by the hiking itinerary Stevenson wrote about in his 1879 memoir “Travels With a Donkey in the ��é����ԲԱ��.”

The ��é����ԲԱ�� itinerary isn’t exactly the Appalachian Trail, and Antoinette doesn’t have to face down any huge physical challenges.

Too bad Vlad the family man has to cancel the lovers’ retreat they had planned when his wife supposedly drags him on a weeklong hike through the ��é����ԲԱ�� National Park.

When she finds out their lovers’ retreat has been jettisoned so that Vladimir can hike in the ��é����ԲԱ�� with his wife and daughter, Antoinette impulsively follows suit with vague intentions of spontaneously running into him.