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 …
Before I get cracking cleaning and packing and all that jazz, I had to put all of it off this morning and make good on my postscript at the end of yesterday’s post wherein I said I’d try to build up a webpage featuring the piece on Rwanda and mountain gorillas. It was rejected by …
With travel (and its myriad preparations) so forefrontal on my mind I’m actually glad my gig in The ‘Gundo is coming to a close today… the better for me to actually get ready to go instead of just thinking about it. But beyond procrastinating I’m also guilty of looking back at the past places my …
This time Saturday we’ll be finishing up a three-hour stopover at New York’s JFK (where we’d been thinking about figuring out a way to catch a taxi from the airport to the Empire State Building and back but probably aren’t going to risk it) and getting set to jet the Atlantic to Venice and begin …
It’s being reported that astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that they believe may be potentially habitable with “earth-like temperatures” although the red dwarf it closely orbits is smaller and dimmer and not as hot as our sun. But… “The planet is just the right size, might have water in liquid form, and in galactic …