Okay – truth – we’ve been here for 7 days now and have done squat. We’ve eaten gelato, fine dinners, and pasta “fatto en casa” (homemade), yummy stuff with lots of pesto and multiple hands to make it easy. It is easy — we have five adults, each courteous and responsible for themselves. Nice. We …
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Blog Two — Italy 2023
Arrivato — 26 hours after we shuttled off to the now-common public spectacle of travel, we sat in the snack and coffee end of the terminal. Airports feel like current events-type geography lessons. Uzbekistan was in Milan, and so was Droha , wherever that is. So, if one computes the luxury of travel and who …
Blog One — Italy 2023
We leave on a shuttle tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM. If all goes well, we will be meeting cousins in Milan sometime tomorrow, a few hours after we land, and await their Chicago direct flight (jealous, much?). Plausible deniability: Some of the folks who get this blog have made the regrettable error of encouraging the …
Blog5
Spiders, Snakes, and other Oz trivia, Lew’s friendly email from an Australian said, ” Watch out for reptiles. They have a reputation!” Enough for me. Of the first 100 poisonous snakes in the world – 98 of them are here. Fuzzy Koalas are endangered and have large claws. Some kangaroos, the red ones, get 6 …
Blog 4 – water water everywhere
Nearly all names for things are shortened, and then an ‘O’ or a ‘Y’ are added. So Jack and Steff are from Carbondale, now Carbo, Lew and I are from Westy, a friend is from Pottsville, or Potty. It seems like I’ve said this before, but we really could live here among the rather casual, …
Blog 3 – A chocky for breaky?
The weekend is nearly finished. We showed up and did our commitment, drank tons of water, and went home to nap before joining humanity on the mall walk. It was intense, although intensely good, at our weekend event. We were treated with exquisite kindness and courtesy by our hosts. Surprisingly, many women seemed grateful that …
Blog 2 – Oz unleashed, but not unhinged
Sleeping is good. So is a shower. Really wonderful to wake up in a new place with a full battery. We are fully here after a couple of days — now we can be Ozians for the next ten days. So, let me tell you about the Gold Coast area we are in — miles …
Blog 1 Australia August 13. Or 14, or maybe even 15, depending — 2023
Never been down under.. Never thought much about going there, before finding ourselves before the Gate G5 marked to San Francisco, on the first leg of the trip. It felt a bit intimidating to go so far by way of such a very long flight. But here we stood, all our acoutrements of modern life and …
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Booblog #11
April 21, 2023Hello friends,I am failing at keeping my life adventures in front of you. Sorry. I realized that I had no news, so nothing to say meant I should say nothing. I’ve been recovering well, somewhat a bit narcoleptic, but getting through with naps. So – back to the medical profession… I have a …
Booblog #10
March 10, 2023 Blog # Hello! I am realizing that I haven’t updated in quite a while, so I am sending out my blog, again. The efforts and the expense of the past couple of weeks have been worthwhile, it seems. I have been checking out all of my parts. As I have whined to …