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Continue reading →: Swim to the LadderNothing like a short stint in the hospital to help you appreciate and reinforce all you have in life. I’m generally a half full kinda guy but the whole Afib thing had me down, periodically. It didn’t control my every thought, mind you. But it was occasionally limiting. And yes,…
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Continue reading →: In Portugal, We Fix AfibOvershare #2 on the way…. Last fall, I developed Afib. It started off relatively occasional and manageable, with short-lived bouts which grew in frequency and duration while we toured across Italy last spring. So much so that I visited an ER in Siena, concerned it was something more serious, as…
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Continue reading →: Two Plus Months on the Road: Lessons LearnedWe’ve just arrived back home after our first “long haul” trip, delayed one year by the pandemic. The trip took us through southeastern France and to seven regions of Italy and three of Europe’s small countries. This was, obviously, our longest trip ever without full time jobs to return to…
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Continue reading →: Off with the Masks, KindaWe are nearing the two month mark for our travels in Italy. At the outset, green pass (the online EU COVID19 vaccine passport) was required to go to museums, churches, restaurants, etc and was more often than not checked. Masks were required indoors. While I’m skeptical of their effectiveness in…
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Continue reading →: Our Trip to SienaIf I had a category for overshares, this post would probably go in it…. But here goes. Our trip to Siena last time, ten years ago, was an overnight and for some reason, this time, we booked it as an overnight again. We were having some regrets about that but…
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Continue reading →: Homesick?We’ve been on the road now for close to two months. Last fall, after one month of constant travel in central and northern Portugal we wondered, will more than a month feel too long? Will we get tired of it and just want some familiarity and some time at home?…
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Continue reading →: Naples – It’s A LotBy Melissa Yesterday was my dad’s birthday. We spent it in Naples. He lived here for several years back in the 1960s when he was a young officer in the Navy. He and my mom met here and always looked back on their time here fondly. Very fondly. They loved…
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Continue reading →: I am not UkrainianBy Melissa I am not Ukrainian. My mother was 100% Norwegian and my father, we don’t really know, but the name Greer and everything he knew about his family background, suggest a lot of English and Irish and not much else. David and I have been back in Europe since…
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Continue reading →: Life is Too ShortI read this (below) in the New York Times daily (now three times weekly) COVID newsletter. It seemed a fitting way to “celebrate” the two year anniversary on March 11 for when The WHO proclaimed COVID a global pandemic. I don’t know Cree, but I hope she would be ok…
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Continue reading →: Endemic Travel in FranceI’ve been asked a few times since we’ve hit the road two weeks ago: “what’s it like to be traveling again” or “how are things in France?” So, I thought I’d take a post to write about our experiences over the past two weeks on the state of travel here…
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