If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning … Long travel days suck me dry. Today started with an early ride on the metro to the airport. Of all the travelling I’ve done, Barcelona is the easiest and most affordable city for airport transportation. Most places will […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning … Our vacation has come down to this, one final day. The days have seemed so long and full of activities that at times it felt like this trip would go on forever. Yet now they have slipped past, much […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning… We walked all over Barcelona today. I started a little earlier than Aubs because she wasn’t ready to wake up when I did. I got ready and went out looking for somewhere I could some breakfast to bring back […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning… Waking up on the sidewalk in a small French town isn’t the best way to start a new day. I was just happy daylight was around the corner. Domile and her friends packed up their bags, we all said […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning … We had to change our plans today. Instead of exploring Torino we had to start early for Barcelona because we couldn’t book a train straight through. They ticket agent suggested we go to Nice and book from there. We […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning… When our night sleeping in the brick oven was over and the sun came up, it cooled off a little. What is the science behind that? Today was supposed to be our day to sleep in because our train […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning… My brother warned us about visiting Venice in August. I tried to talk Aubree out of it but she said it was the whole reason she wanted to come to Italy, so we skipped the expensive breakfast and caught […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning… I always look for a hotels with a free breakfast. Most of the time they don’t cost more and it saves money on food. Eat a good breakfast, snack throughout the day (jerky and trail mix from Costco works […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning… I woke up feeling normal, thank goodness my yuckiness from last night moved on. It sucks to be sick on vacation. Our original plan was to catch an early train north towards the Cinque Terre region but we had […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning… We still aren’t used to the time difference. We were awake in the night for several hours again but then fell back asleep and were dog-tired when it was time to get up. It was tough to get rolling […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning… We both woke up at 3am and couldn’t sleep. I told her about a dream I had about a 2,000 year old love tragedy between a slave and the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat that is resolved by flashbacks […]

Rome with Aubree