On the morning of our 3rd wedding anniversary, Sarah and I hiked to Eagle Lake which, outside of Hawaii, has got to be the most beautiful spot I’ve ever been. We had no idea what we were getting into… just saw lots of cars parked by the road and like Read more
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 the first day of the Tahoe leg, the lake was 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 the fires had something to say about that. We broke 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 tour on the floor of the stadium, which is a 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 place where Caesar’s body was burned. Also a Chipotle. Side 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 machines, drainage systems, brothels… lots of brothels, ovens, advanced street 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 of them, which isn’t much. You’d think at some point 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 Nine. Today we saw the Pantheon, which was a weird 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 wouldn’t have put write and right back to back. I 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 was cramming 180 people onto a bus made for 60. Read more