Rather than take you day by day, I’m going to split Lake Tahoe into two posts; one for the time we spent on/near the water and one for the time we spent hiking. This one is about the water. On Read more…
We spent the first 2 days in Mammoth, which is a skiing town in the winter and a nice mountain town the rest of the year. The original plan was for the second day to be spent in Yosemite but Read more…
On our last day, we finally got to see the Colosseum. It was the only site we visited at which we took a guided tour. This got us access to areas we would not otherwise have seen. We started the Read more…
The Roman Forum was the birthplace of Rome. In its day it housed government buildings, lively market squares, temples, a house of women condemned to virginity until the age of 30 lest they be buried alive (true story) and the Read more…
Pompeii was a long hot sweaty disgusting trek to, though and back. As such I was exhausted and am now a day behind so Imma keep this brief. For a civilization that predates Christ, they were surprisingly advanced… plumbing, basic Read more…
We set out this day with very little planned and ended up all over the place seeing all kinds of wacky old crap. We learned that forums are like drugstores, there’s one on every corner… or at least what’s left Read more…
Day Eight was all trains and napping… possibly still more interesting than the job at which you’re likely reading this but still a bit of a stretch to make interesting on my end. We pick up our story with Day Read more…
Cinque Terre is a group of 5 small villages that we ferried between today. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are 12k words. I’m too tired to write right now. You see? Someone more alert Read more…
Today we said goodbye to Florence and took a train & bus to Portovenere. It’s a small coastal town known for Anchovies, Pesto and hillside houses brought to you by the good people at Crayola. The highlight of the day Read more…
There’s no sense easing into it, I’ll just dive right in. One of the wineries we visited plays Mozart 24/7 in their barrell room… to make the wine taste better. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice to say, The Read more…