Travel Plans Derailed, Part 2

The shoes I wore to dinner after our first (successful — 28 km) day walking the Via Francigena wouldn’t fit me again this trip, thanks to a fall and a very swollen ankle the next day. I eventually reframed the experience more positively, but first. . . I might have done some weeping and gnashing of teeth. Click through to read on. . .

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San Quirico through the Side-View Window: When the Best-Laid Travel Plans Fail, Part 1

Home from Italy, enjoying my garden, sorting travel memories, and processing the experience of injuring my ankle on the second day of an intended week-long walk on the Via Francigena, Toscana. And wondering, “What’s Age got to do with It?” Click through to read more. . .

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Travel Highs and Lows and Keeping it Real

Sorry for the radio silence here, but perhaps you’ve been following my travels over on Instagram, a platform that is easier to use for quick updates while on the go and with limited data, Wifi…

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“Ciao” from Italy. . .

Postcards to you from our week in Rome — click through to see what we’ve been up to!

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Still Horsing Around in Siena . . .

The horse tethering rings I saw in Siena last November fascinated me, and I snapped photo after photo. I’m sharing them here to take you on a tour of that Tuscan city — also sharing a few pages from my travel sketch journal.

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