I booked a girls trip to the northwest corner of Sardinia. I’ve been trying to get to Sardinia, but Covid lockdown stopped me twice, so the third time was a charm. It was BEAUTIFUL. I can’t even describe…
On the way home from Tuscany, we stopped by a village that has transformed itself by painting murals on its walls. It was really really cool, so beautiful and creative. Another great trip was the one to Vietri…
We drove to Tuscany for a long weekend. It was super cold there, we did not expect it after the warmth here. I think it was a cold snap, of course just for us. I blame it on…
We pretty much did something every day while Jean and Elizabeth were here, even if it was only a trip to walk on the beach or a travel day. We did Herculaneum (a smaller, more intact version of…
Jean and Elizabeth, Matt’s mom and sister, finally got here after a cancelled trip in early 2020. They got here and we hit the ground running… quite literally, actually, since the route home from the airport detoured us…
Lots of Scouts for Cedar, including becoming the new Scouts Leader (Senior Patrol Leader). An international food festival at our local NATO base. LOTS of food and EVEN MORE alcohol from all kinds of European booths– it…
August here was, once again, like every August here but even worse this year, HOT. So stupid gross humid hot. Record hot. We went to cooler Slovenia for awhile, but we also had to come home. Also the…
We went on our Leave vacation! Goodbye hot Naples! We took a road trip north to Slovenia, about a 10 hour drive. We stopped for the first night in Bologna to break up the drive, then the next…
After Matt returned from Ukraine, we drove 3 hours south to the border of Basilicata and Calabria, at the “instep” of Italy’s boot, on the Ionian Sea. We LOVE this sea– it is so clean, clear, and calm,…
We visited Sorrento again, and just wandered around being tourists. We got a bit drunk from the limoncello samples we kept getting, since we were the only tourists in the shop (usually it is packed full of tourists,…