While we like to go to new places when we travel, we can’t resist returning to places where the experience was extraordinary. When we return, we often wish we had taken better note of the special places or things that happened during the trip. Case in point, we were driving on some back road …
It Takes Two to Make a Thing Go Right
It’s been on the bucket list for a while …a cycling vacation. But with one party being an exceptionally stronger biker than the other, we had a hard time committing, concerned that our different skills level would make the trip less than fun for at least one of us. While scouring the internet dreaming of …
Random musings on returning to Italy
After we decided to spend Claire’s birthday and our honeymoon in Italy – I began to get steadily more excited about the prospect of returning to Italy, Venice in particular. As a first semester sophomore in 1989, I left the US, fraternity and the comfort of “my place” in my world for the unknown. No …
And so the adventure begins….
Point of sail …. Italy. The best flights we could score with banked sky miles dropped us in Bologna. A new city to explore for us both. My printed google mapped directions (yes . . .printed) were slightly less than helpful in getting us to our Airbnb location. Thankful for the omnipresent gps, John’s iPhone …