Dad’s Last Wish
Dad suffered kidney failure on the 4th of July, 2010. Fourteen months later he left us. The interim was a painful blur of dialysis, hospital [Read More…]
Travel
The Kindness of Strangers
Something about travel seems to turn on the human kindness gene, both for the traveler and for the locals whose paths they cross. Travel idealists [Read More…]
If Hotels Operated Like Airlines…
Making Reservations • You always have to pay for your room in advance when you reserve, not when you stay.• If you reserve your room [Read More…]
How To Setup A Kayak Airfare Alert
It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of Kayak. While the website it great and we use it all the time, their mobile apps are [Read More…]
Scooters!
We love scooters. Every time we’ve been to Europe we’ve marveled, gawked, and admired them. Whether old (the orange vintage Vespa above) or new (the [Read More…]
Some Very Cool AirBnB Places We’ve Found
We’re big fans of AirBnB.com and have an extensive list of wish lists (AirBnB’s equivalent of favorites and bookmarks). With thousands of privately owned properties [Read More…]
Our New Travel Friends…And We Haven’t Even Left Yet
Our regular blog readers know the cornerstone of our life philosophy: great lives are made up of great experiences and great relationships. Part of what [Read More…]
Being A Temporary Regular
il David in Florence is our favorite place to eat in this beautiful city. This was our third visit in about as many days, and [Read More…]
Very Cool App: Word Lens
We recently downloaded a very cool app worth a blog: it’s called Word Lens. Admittedly we only downloaded it because we heard it was (for [Read More…]
What To Do When Something Goes Wrong; Or, How To Survive An Encounter With An Irish Mobster
“But we have a reservation,” I explained, holding up my itinerary, as if that were proof. He just laughed, shrugged, and said in a thick [Read More…]