Thursday April 20, 2023 Today Carol and I plan to hike through the Parco Regionale Della Murgia Materena. The park encompasses the Gravina, a gorge with a river running through it and a foot bridge over the river. Daves Foot is bothering him so they will not be joining us. We head to where the […]
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Meeting Up with Friends in Lecce
Thursday April 13, 2023 We leave our apartment around 0805 and start our mile walk to the station. Along the way, we stop at the bakery and grab 2 pastiociotti to have on the train. The single car train is on time which id good as we only have a 5 minute connection in Maglie. […]
Rainy Easter Monday
Monday April 10, 2023 We got to bed about 2230 putting us firmly in the Italy time zone. Carol woke up at 0200 and tells me stay in bed, it’s only 0200. I woke up at 0500, back to bed. We both woke up around 0800, stayed in bed and next thing we knew, we […]
On the Road Again or Plane and Train
Sunday April 9, 2023 Well, here we are in the future and I can tell you that things are looking better. Probably because our future is in Italy. Everything so far has gone without a hitch. We were dropped at Newark Airport by Steven at noon. Security was a breeze and we went to the […]
Holy Toledo
Monday April 15, 2019 We sleep in today which for us is 0815. We head down for the included breakfast which is served. It included a small yogurt starter, excellent fresh squeezed orange juice, a giant croissant(or fruit), jamon and tomatoe on a large type of Texas toast, and a cafe con leche. It is […]
Land of the Apaches
March 20, 2018 We had a nice night’s sleep below Indian Bread Rock. We heard an owl hooting several times last night but it stopped when I put my ear plugs in, or more likely they worked well. Since we went to bed a little after 7 PM, we both woke up with the sunrise […]
Next Adventure: Canada
We had thought about going back and hiking some more of the PCT this summer. The crazy winter and large amount of snowfall in California this year, made us think twice about it. We decided to forgo the hike and started to look at alternative plans. We figured into our planning the fact that we […]
Information on our Website
For those of you who had signed up to get e mail updates when I posted a new entry, you may have noticed a slew of updates lately. This was due to a site called Travelpod shutting down their travel website. I had used them for our 2012 Europe Blog and also was slowly publishing […]
Back to More Roots – Bocchigliero
We go down to the main house for breakfast. The room is all stonework and beautiful. We enjoy a nice spread that includes sweets, savory, and marinated and stuffed peppers, sun dried tomatoes, and artichokes. Cappuchino and juice go with it. We finish breakfast, gather our stuff and get in our car. We are driving […]
