Roadtrip 2005

Well here we are - the day we knew would come, without knowing exactly how we'd feel about it. I would say that we both are experiencing...

Well, with the exception of our one day in Venice, we've been hanging around Florence since the Rome trip, which - I think - is the long...

Back to the Vatican this morning, this time because I had been told that the Pope gives a public blessing to the pilgrims in St. Peter's...

The next stop on the travel itinerary was the Vatican, and due to the sheer vastness of the place and the quantity of its treasures, we had ...

So this is actually my fourth time in Rome, with the first two visits being very ho-hum trips through the city by train on our way to the ai...

Today was a travel day, headed back to Italy. As usual, that meant an early morning, but this time we were able to arrange a flight back to ...

A quick note to readers: if airplane-geek stuff bores you, you might want to skip today's blog and move right on to tomorrow's. You...