- Here's Leopold, and then down there is Douglas.

My name is Madeline LaRue.

He was with me all the time when I was in the hospital.

He just kept me company.

I grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.

Next January, I'll be 100 maybe, if I make it.

It's very simple and very plain what I do, I do practically nothing.

I like to read and write, I watch my favorite programs on KQED, British comedies especially.

All my relations and old buddies, and pals, and friends have left.

I have nobody to talk to about old things.

I stopped going outside very much because I nearly got run over once.

I was scared.

I haven't gone out very much since then.

- [Ian] When was the last time you were on a bicycle?

- It was many, many, many decades ago that I was on a bicycle.

- So we're gonna just roll out here, and we're gonna hop on this little three-wheel contraption that we've got.

Hi, my name's Jacob Seigel Brielle, and I'm your pilot for this episode of "Joy Ride."

Yeah, so if you wanna just roll up right around the side here.

Today, we're gonna be taking Madeline out on a ride.

She's a former French literature professor, at UC Berkeley, spent a buncha time in Paris.

Just a little cruise through the neighborhood to hopefully get her out there.

I know she hasn't been able to get out as much as she's gotten older, and so hopefully this ride lets her get out there in a way that she feels comfortable and safe.

Madeline, ya ready to roll?

- Well, I don't know, are you?

- I am, let's go.

- Oh my goodness.

Oh my goodness.

Oh, this is so funny.

- And we're off.

- Oh, this is so weird.

So silly.

- [Jacob] So, is this the theater right here that you were saying used to be- - It used to be lovely.

- [Jacob] Do you remember the last movie that you saw in the theater?

- Oh, it was the Korean movie that won.

- Ooh, "Parasite."

- Yeah.

- Yeah, oh, that was a good one.

- I didn't care for it, but.

- No, it wasn't your cup of tea?

- No, it was too loud.

- Too loud.

- And too bright.

I used to go to the movies a great deal, especially French movies, Italian movies.

I lived across the street from some movie houses.

- Were you a movie lover when you were there too, did you go to the theater in Paris?

- Absolutely.

Loved movies, yes.

- I mean, golden Era of French new wave, yeah?

- Yes, indeed.

Godard and Truffaut.

Truffaut especially.

Well, Paris was such a big part of my life and it affected me so very much.

I feel that I grew up there and I became a human being in Paris.

- Did you have a favorite arrondissement or neighborhood when you were there?

- Yeah, 6th.

- 6th.

- That's where I liked to be.

It's on the Left Bank.

- On Left Bank, okay.

- Next to the 5eme.

- Oh, okay, okay.

- In the 5eme, I would be seen.

I met my husband at the International House, in Paris.

I had wanted to marry a starving artist and live in a garret in Paris, which I did.

However, we never starved and we weren't living exactly in a garret.

I missed Paris terribly when I had to leave.

I had to leave because of the airlift to Berlin, and I was afraid of the Russians coming down.

I was going to go to Vienna to perfect my German, and Vienna is much too close to Berlin for safety, so I thought I better come back to the States.

Are we going to visit the cemetery?

- It just happened to be on the route.

It was not an intentional stop.

- I don't wanna be buried in there.

It's a nice place, but I don't wanna be buried there- You see?

This is pretty slow.

- You want me to go a little faster?

- Why not?

Yeah, there.

Come on, come on.

- There we go.

A little Tour de France here.

- Come on.

- Alright.

- Whoo-hoo!

Come on!

I never thought I would be this old.

I don't feel old, that's the thing.

I really can't believe it.

Oh dear, is this the end?

- This is the end.

- Oh, dear.

I'm sorry it's over, I wish we could do it again.

- [Ian] You would like to do this again?

- Yes, I would.

- [Ian] What would you like to do again?

- This, run around and be pushed around, like royalty.

- You recited some poem for us earlier about- - Oh.

I never saw a purple cow.

I never hope to see one.

But this, I tell you anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

I think about mortality all the time.

Do you?

- Yes.

- Jacob?

- That's Ian.

- Ian.

- Where's Jacob?

- A little closer to you.

- I'm right here.

- Hello.

- Hello.

- It was so nice meeting all of you.

- It was great to meet you.

- Oh, yeah, it was our pleasure.

- I haven't met any young men for so long.

Okay, well let's pick it up, fellas.

- Alright, pick it up.

The order's come in.

Allez.

- There's a very popular song by Edith Piaf, "Je ne regrette rein," "I regret nothing."

Other people are wondering what is going on.