Notes from the Road (but Mostly Photos)

A first attempt to tell you about our walk on the Via Francigena from Lucca to Siena.

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New Day, New City — and Keeping It Real, Travel-Wise

I saw the glorious Duomo di Milan yesterday — after a day that included a few worries. Sharing the highs — I met an angel in very practical, no-nonsense human form, I saw the Duomo in late-afternoon sunlight — and the lows . . . keeping it real, as my friend Sandy often says. Clcik through to read; maybe you have some travel reality of your own to share.

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Waving from Orvieto . . .

We’re having a grand time here in Orvieto (after several days in Rome) — can I show you a few sights? And give you a peek into my Travel Journal pages?

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Summer Daydreaming about Spring Travels

A quick post today, peeking into my travel journal at a day in Tuscany this past Spring. I did a bit of sketching there and then lately have been revisiting photos, sketching and reminiscing back home. . .

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What I Read in May

What will you find in my May Reading post? Romance and survival and trauma and loss; domestic fiction, historical fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, a crime thriller, and a war diary. Books that will take you from the frozen north to India’s heat, from contemporary London, England, Amherst, Massachusetts, and New Delhi, India to wartime France and Italy. Click the link to read more — thanks for stopping by!

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.