by Ann | Jun 15, 2018 | Destinations, Feature Destinations, Feature Italy, Italy, The World, Where we've been
Caio from Rome, Italy! We made it and Rome and intentionally did not pre-plan much of our first day in Italy. We tried that a couple of years ago but a mechanical issue caused our flight out of Omaha to be canceled and we lost money on pre-purchased tickets for a...
by Steve | Jun 2, 2018 | Blogging, Feature Italy, Italy, The World
Yes, we’ve been invited to tour Italy with Deb and Massi. She’s from upstate New York, backpacked through Australia and New Zealand, and worked in Silicon Valley and in Texas. He’s small town boy who grew up on a Tuscan hunting estate and winery and...
by Ann | Jan 16, 2016 | Feature Italy, Italy, The World, Where we've been
When we stepped out of the car along a roadside overlooking the Roman Forum and ruins, I could hardly believe my eyes. I’d seen pictures of these places in history books, and watched movies like Gladiator that showed these scenes, but nothing quite compared to...
by Steve | Jan 3, 2016 | Family, Italy, The World
Last summer, my brother and nephew took a father/son trip to Italy and did lots of sightseeing, exploring, and even took an Italian cooking class. While their schedules were busy, we really appreciated them taking time out to find postcards to send to us, even when it...
by Steve | Sep 28, 2015 | Italy, The World
As you may already know, whenever we travel, we look for opportunities to purchase postcards and mail them home to our “postcard jar” [read more about that here]. We started doing this several years ago as a way to easily document our travels, remind us...
by Steve | Sep 26, 2015 | Feature Italy, Italy, The World, Where we've been
I’d looked forward to this day since we’d booked our European vacation. I’d been to Rome twenty years ago, so had been to the Vatican, but Ann had not. I’d told her that St. Peter’s was something we could not miss on our visit to the...