Stumbling Through Life (Or Why I Look Down)
I’m all caught up on travel posts! Huzzah! At least until my trip at the end of September. Where am I going, you ask? Stay tuned. In the meantime, this is a brief rambling interlude. This title is not metaphorical. I literally stumble. All the time. It’s like I’m training for some Olympic klutz event.…
The Italian Journals: Matera
In June, we took a weekend trip to Matera, Italy. I wanted to visit Matera because where else can you now sleep in a room that was first occupied 9,000 years ago? Matera, in the region of Basilicata, in Southern Italy, is thought to be the third oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the world (after…
The Italian Journals: Umbria
Because the weather got ridiculous hot, we decided to do a road trip in August. We took quick overnight road trip to the Umbria region. Umbria is a region in central Italy. In fact, the geographic center of Italy is claimed to be near the Cardona Bridge in Narni*, Umbria, which is marked by a…
The Italian Journals: Sofia, Bulgaria
July was a good travel month and I did another short trip in mid-July to Sofia, Bulgaria. Bulgaria is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea and is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the…
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