There was quite the production in our campground last night, complete with a couple of really drunk guys getting in a shouting match sometime around midnight and we think, ultimately getting kicked out of the campground all together. Either way, since our walls are nylon, we got a late start on bedtime. Once awake, I […]
As I listened to the rain last night, I couldn’t help but feel the usual anxiety I do with rain as we travel. I don’t want to be wet, I don’t want to be cold. I don’t want the wind to blow. Of course, for the first time in basically our entire trip, we were […]
After a good breakfast this morning and a slow packing up process after being stationary for a few days, we rolled out of our camp at the base of the Alpe d’Huez. Although the mountains had caused me a fair bit of angst, I was actually sad to be leaving their towering majestic atmosphere and […]
I woke up with the sun- pretty much as always these days, but today we gratefully had nowhere to go. I rolled over and went back to sleep for two solid hours. By the time I finally crawled out of the tent, I realized that I felt more or less like I had been run […]
As an addendum to Ben’s post yesterday, I just wanted to mention that the alps have been on Ben’s Europe list from the get-go, and as we planned this trip, we put lots of stars on the map regarding places we thought we’d like to make it to. Of course, the Alp d’Huez was one […]
I slept a bit fitfully last night, all night wondering where I was and where Ben was, but I suppose that is part of the territory when you change locations as often as we have been lately. For whatever reason, I woke up just before dawn and when it was finally light enough outside to […]
As we gratefully watched the clouds roll out, we had high hopes for improved weather tomorrow. Instead, I laid awake most of the night listening to the wind howl through town and across our little campground. With everything making so much noise, I just wanted it to be morning so that I could get up […]
As always, we were up quite early, although we whiled away a good bit of the morning hanging out in the tent, procrastinating the inevitable packing up process that begins pretty much every day. We are getting faster at our daily routine, but still it can be a bit of a slow process by the […]
We began our day bright and early with plans to catch the 8:00 train out of Pisa. We go to great lengths out here to avoid actually committing ourselves to anything, so we hadn’t actually bought the tickets, but we were planning on making the train. We were packed up and on the road by […]
This morning we decided to do something pretty much unheard of for us on this trip and sleep in, and then use the rest of the morning to get a few things organized and taken care of before we headed back into Rome. We’ve quickly discovered that being full time travelers doesn’t exempt us from […]
Since we have been gone, my little brother, Colton, and his girlfriend Miara have taken on the task of tending to our garden. When we initially planned our trip, one of the things I was the most sad about was that we wouldn’t be home to get the garden going and I am so thrilled […]
After our very long day walking around the Vatican and strolling the streets of Rome, the night had pretty much gotten away from us before we had time to make any dinner. Ben was still determined to eat good wood burning oven pizza and we’d seen the cool ovens at our campground restaurant, so we […]