With Florence serving as the base of our 2016 trip to Italy, we took a two hour high-speed train ride to Rome for a day in the… Read more “All Roads (and tracks) Lead to Rome”
Category: Travel
Book Review: The Moon Pool
I’ve been reading Adventure stories, Horror stories, and Science Fiction stories from the late 1800s and early 1900s for most of my reading life. I started with… Read more “Book Review: The Moon Pool”
Book Review: Cod
This is an excellent book, and a much quicker read than Kurlansky’s more famous and popular book, Salt. I love that it balances History, Food, and Environmentalism… Read more “Book Review: Cod”
Firenze: Three Days of Art, History, and Food
In February of 2016, Rebecca and I took our second European trip, this time to Italy. As we had done with Lisbon, our plan was to… Read more “Firenze: Three Days of Art, History, and Food”
Five Caribbean Islands
As I wrote about in previous posts (here & here), we left Puerto Rico for a week long cruise through the Southwestern Caribbean. Five islands, each unique… Read more “Five Caribbean Islands”
Book Review: Salt
The dry recitation of facts does little for distribution of historic wisdom. Certainly, there has been a move toward making history more palatable and more relatable for… Read more “Book Review: Salt”
Book Review: Over the Edge of the World
“Magellan was generally at his best, and a far more sympathetic character, when he was the underdog. At such moments, his best qualities came to the fore:… Read more “Book Review: Over the Edge of the World”
A Week on a Cruise Ship
From Puerto Rico, we boarded the Norwegian Gem and shipped out on a tour of the Southeastern Caribbean. This was my first time on a cruise ship,… Read more “A Week on a Cruise Ship”
A Few Days in Puerto Rico
A couple weeks back, my amazing partner and I hopped on an airplane and headed down to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Neither of us had been there… Read more “A Few Days in Puerto Rico”
More of Beautiful Lisbon
I wanted to share a few more pictures from our trip to Lisbon in February of 2015. Belem was probably the most ‘touristy’ place we visited.… Read more “More of Beautiful Lisbon”
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