Southern Italy: A Perfect Itinerary
You’ve visited a Rome, Florence and Venice and love Italy. We do too! Guess what! There’s more to Italy than the big 3: Rome, Florence and Venice. Italy’s best kept […]
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Italy: The Perfect Itinerary
When asked by different acquaintances for suggestions on their upcoming trips to Italy I referred them to my blog. My blog postings are mostly a travelogue or trip report of […]
Portland Day Trip to Mt. Angel
Business took us to Salem last week. Traffic took us home on an alternate route. We got off of I-5 and took a more scenic route home. In the past, […]
Footsteps of Paul: A Trip Report, Part 2
The Footsteps of Paul tour was a huge success! Many, many thanks to Paul at Inspired Voyagers, in Athens for working with me to organize our tour and making all […]
Travel Expense Report: Italy, Istanbul, Israel
In January of 2015 we quit our jobs, sold our house, cars and most of our possessions to devote a year to travel with the belief that slow travel can […]
A Christmas Return to Rome
It’s a luxury to return to a place a second time. Having familiarity with a place reduces the stress of learning the transportation system and locating things. Under less pressure […]
The Sassi Town of Matera, Italy
Leaving Puglia (Apulia), we crossed into Basilicata, a rugged, wild and sparsely populated region, to visit one of Italy’s highlights, Matera. The town of Matera has a secret. This is […]
A Return to Napoli
In 2010 I said I would “return to Naples in a heartbeat just to eat the pizza.” So we did! And it wasn’t easy. We dropped off the rental car […]
La Dolce Vita: True Confessions, Rants and Ravings
Two English words: travel and travail are closely related. Travel is fun, but it comes with travail. I try not to rant too frequently, and generally look on the sunny side […]
Puglia: “Trulli” Italiano
We are staying the month of December in Lecce, the capital of the Province of Puglia. (The English name is Apulia.) The Italians call this region of southern Italy the land […]
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