Dang but I got suckered into thinking I had it beat. Shoulda known better. I managed to get some sleep last night, about five hours worth. Got up at around 7 a.m. this morning and went about my day unpacking and decompressing and catching up with Survivor and The Sopranos and the animals and such. …
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Amazing how quickly things slip from your memory… at least until one imports the 2,840 3,183 photos taken over the last two weeks in Europe providing refreshment to recall capabilities. Case in point, allow me to introduce you to Our Lady Of The Pigeons Of Saint Mark’s Square who Susan and I had the marvelous …
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Well first off, what a pleasant homecoming gift to arrive back from 15 hours of flights from Paris to Atlanta to L.A. to find my urban bicycling editorial gracing the pages of today’s L.A. Times. Much appreciation to the Times’ Robin Rauzi for tapping me for the duty and for honing the piece, and nods …
Whew. Here we are in the port of Monte Carlo waiting to disembark and say farewell to our vessel, the Regent Seven Seas Navigator. We’ve covered 1,589 total nautical miles, but this last 142 from Corsica were the most memorable — not for the right reasons. I’m hearing that the ship plowed right through the …
In the time since I’ve last logged on, we’ve done Rome in a sixth of a day (or at least as much as one can in four hours:Â Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Tomb on the Unknown Soldier, Colisseum and a lotta walking in between followed by a semi-private tour of the Vatican Museum and the …
Well, the whole iPod to laptop to flashdrive to desktop digimage transfer plan ain’t gonna happen. Apparently firewire cables are very 2002 around these here watery parts. But in the meantime I’ve worked some borrowed Belkin magic and uploaded directly from the camera’s memory card the above snap of me lounging this afternoon on our starboard suite’s balcony just …
Just a quick hey say from the ship just off the coast of Croatia as the anchor’s being raised at Dubrovnik where we just spent a marvelous day and now and we’re on our way around the heel and toe of Italy’s boot for a full day at sea before coming into Rome. It’s been …