Firenze Trip – Getting Abroad
Continued from: Firenze Trip – Getting Fed We took two trips out of the city during our stay. On Friday afternoon, we took a wine tour to the small town … Continue Reading Firenze Trip – Getting Abroad
Firenze Trip – Getting Fed
Continued from: Firenze Trip – Getting Culture When one goes to Italy besides all of the things you might want to see or do, certainly tasting the local fare would … Continue Reading Firenze Trip – Getting Fed
Firenze Trip – Getting Culture
Continued from: Firenze Trip – Getting Acclimated In the screen shot above you will note the highlighted route takes a few gentle curves. What we did not know until it … Continue Reading Firenze Trip – Getting Culture
Firenze Trip – Getting Acclimated
Continued from: Firenze Trip – Getting There My wife had booked us into one of the oldest hotel in Florence, the Plaza Hotel Lucchesi which opened its doors for the … Continue Reading Firenze Trip – Getting Acclimated
Firenze Trip – Getting There
Unless you are a native of this country or have been there, you would not know that Firenze (Fee × rent×say) is what Italians call the capital of the Tuscany … Continue Reading Firenze Trip – Getting There
Travel 2024 – No Not a Rebound
Continued from: Travel 2024 – Not a Rebound So Far After busy June and July travel months, we did not go anywhere in August until the very end of the … Continue Reading Travel 2024 – No Not a Rebound
Travel 2024 – Not a Rebound So Far
Continued from: Travel 2024 – A Rebound? By the middle of April, my wife and I ready were ready for another trip—this time a road trip. We drove just 2.5 … Continue Reading Travel 2024 – Not a Rebound So Far
Travel 2024 – A Rebound?
PREFACE: Today (February 9th) marks the completion of my 12th year of blogging. In years past, I have dedicated an entire post to mark the milestone. But this year, I … Continue Reading Travel 2024 – A Rebound?
Best Books of 2024 – Epilogue
My daughter and son-in-law previously gave me for Christmas a non-fiction book about the 1927 Dole Derby, the Race to Hawaii by Jason Ryan. This was a story I had … Continue Reading Best Books of 2024 – Epilogue
Best Books of 2024 – Chapter 4
I once again must credit BookBub with bringing this book to my attention by an author I did not know. Several years ago, I read a very interesting non-fiction book … Continue Reading Best Books of 2024 – Chapter 4
Best Books of 2024 – Chapter 3
It is rather unusual for one author to make my “best of list” with three different books in a single calendar year but Rebecca Serle has done it. Before I … Continue Reading Best Books of 2024 – Chapter 3
Best Books of 2024 – Chapter 2
It was my wife who told me about this book. I had never heard of the author or the title, Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, but when she … Continue Reading Best Books of 2024 – Chapter 2
Best Books of 2024 – Chapter 1
I am happy to ring in the new year with what for some of my regular readers has become their favorite series of posts—my favorite books that I read from … Continue Reading Best Books of 2024 – Chapter 1
SibSabs – 2024 – A Familiar Location
Continued from: SibSabs – 2024 – Prelude With just weeks before our scheduled SibSab, we decided to travel to Northwest Arkansas where our two sisters lived and where we had … Continue Reading SibSabs – 2024 – A Familiar Location
SibSabs – 2024 – Prelude
This blog title should be a clue that this year, we got to have more than one SibSab (Sibling Sabbatical). To be exact, we had two. But the first one … Continue Reading SibSabs – 2024 – Prelude
Rejuvenated Vintage Chairs
These chairs have belonged to my wife for longer than I can remember. They originally sat on her grandmother’s expansive porch at her large home in midtown Memphis. Sometime after … Continue Reading Rejuvenated Vintage Chairs
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