The Adjuster From Fläsch

"What am I doing here?" wrote Arthur Rimbaud from Ethiopia. Considering the joys and complications of foreign travel, it‘s a logical question. Having just returned from a month in Europe, visiting seven countries - including several of those tiny enclaves such as Monaco, Andorra, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg where royalty of a sort still rule - I was struck with the difference between 21st century Europe and our now somewhat provincial-seeming U.S.A. While there, I called upon an old friend, Felix Böhnner, who holds the title Master Adjuster (akin to claims manager), for Därkstoon Reassurance, a wholly-owned entity of the Principality of Därkstoon, one of the tiny little fiefdoms hidden in the Alps and wedged between three European nations at the Leo Pass.