First things first, it may or may not be called Il Duomo. I think the real name is much longer but I’m tired, so here we are. Please don’t tell my architecture professors. We went into The Duomo, to the top of its dome and through a museum about it Read more…
We left Venice this morning after having spent the perfect amount of time (2.5 days) there, I think. Just enough for ample meandering and planned sight seeing. Any more and we’d just have been retracing our steps. Look kids, Big Ben, Parliament. It’s a two hour train ride from Venice Read more…
It rained quite a bit this morning which makes the streets of Venice a very different place. Dry is better, for sure, but it was interesting to see the city under other conditions. Today we toured St. Mark’s Basilica and Doge’s Palace. The former didn’t allow photos inside, a rule Read more…
Many have told us the secret is to just have fun getting lost in the streets of Venice, which is exactly what we did accidentally on purpose. We walked about 12 miles our first day and loved every minute of it. This city is unreal. It feels like every picture Read more…
🚗🚌🚝🛩🛩🚂🚅🚤 Do that for about 24 hours and then you’re there. Seriously, that’s it. *Dusts hands.* We may have ridden a donkey at some point, I’m not entirely sure. Anyhow, burro or not, we’ve arrived in Venice safely and I don’t think I’ve ever been this tired before. So today Read more…
…full of hope and excitement, not yet beaten down by travel gnomes or jetlag dragons (letlaggons). Stay tuned for the after shot.
Before heading to Italy we made a short stopover in San Francisco to meet up with my parents and my brother’s family unit. We helped out the local tourism and shared economies by Lyfting our way from the AirBnb’s to the piers and back. A few highlights included some first-timers Read more…
We took the ferry over to one of the nearby islands on our last day, walked around a bunch and did some kayaking. The ferry holds 200 cars and something like a thousand people. Apparently most of the islanders commute to work each day on the ferry to Seattle, their Read more…
This museum is by far the most amazing museum I’ve ever been to. It was tough to capture much with my camera, but here are a few pictures anyway. My brain doesn’t even know where to begin, so just check out the website. http://www.empmuseum.org The recognizable stuff you see in Read more…
State Plates: 43/50 Today we wandered around the city, through Pike’s Market and a bunch of other spots. We must have walked close to ten miles. It was a fun though not terribly photogenic day. We hopped the light rail to the stadium and watched the Mariners beat up on Read more…