it’s our first morning in florida and i have the time to write! this is the first time i’ve felt relaxed for at least a few weeks. it’s still a little cool here this morning. perhaps 66 degrees. that’s a considerable improvement over chicago’s current temperatures, though, so it feels great […]

it was some insane early time in the morning and we were dragging our extremely heavy bags down the pier at venice. we stuffed them onto a bus and boarded. we planned to take the public transportation (vaporetti) to the hotel, since we had no desire to pay all that money for a […]

day 6:
imagine, if you will, waking up to this:

this is a sunrise in greece. does it get any better?
unlike the grand adventure of santorini, we had an easy day in corfu, greece, a rather large island just west of the mainland. our excursion was a simple beach package. we boarded a bus […]