Today we have been traveling for 1000 days. I just wanted to mark the occasion. So much to reflect on. So much to unpack. I still haven’t internalized the sudden lack of momentum that has been a constant companion….
Day 936 – Lecce, Italy – The heel of the boot.
June 22, 2022
To round out our Italy adventure we decided our last stop should be Lecce, all the way down into the heel of the boot, a city of about 100 thousand. There are much less tourists down this far and…
Day 924 – Matera, Italy – (Part 2) – Historic City Center, Puglian Food, and the rest.
May 27, 2022
If your only experience of Matera is from photos or travel shows it’s easy to think that the ancient part of the city, the Sassi, is all that there is to Matera, and sure that is spectacular. But the…
Day 924 – Matera, Italy – (Part 1) – Sassi di Matera – An ancient city of troglodytes
May 13, 2022
Here lies the foundations of human civilizations. A warren of hand carved underground dwellings and structures. These were the literal cave men. The mythical troglodytes of our beginnings. The first stone age human settlements on the entire Italian peninsula….
Bros – May 4, 2022 (Lecce, Italy)
May 6, 2022
Bros is self-described as avant-garde and attempts to push the boundaries of gastronomy through inventing new flavors using experimental techniques in fermentation and lab-based processes. They create highly refined and precisely constructed recipes in a molecular style while retaining…
Day 919 – The Amalfi Coast, Italy – Positano, Amalfi, and Ravello
April 28, 2022
The Amalfi Coast has long been one of my travel goals and I was elated to finally get to this region of Italy. Its colorful old houses that perch impossibly on the sides of steep cliffs over the ocean…
Day 915 – Sorrento, Italy – A cute cliffside lemon town.
April 22, 2022
Directly across the Bay of Naples from Naples is the quaint cliffside town of Sorrento, about 30 miles by the coast, passing the looming Mount Vesuvius as you go, the still steaming vents a reminder that this giant is…
Day 907 – Naples, Italy – A riot of chaos, diversity, and fold up street pizza.
April 17, 2022
Naples. A jungle of antiquity and life. An endless reticulated tangling. Layer upon layer. Thin lanes dotted with shrines and gestures for one god until the next. The winding and meshing traffic flowing like blood through veins, eschewing rules…
Day 899 – Rome, Italy – (Part 3) – Food Tour of Rome
April 10, 2022
Each region of Italy has a unique style of food and most of it completely unlike the food you will find in an American Italian restaurant. Rome is no exception. Its traditional dishes are very much alive today and…
Day 899 – Rome, Italy – (Part 2) – Old Rome
April 5, 2022
As we’ve travelled throughout Europe over the past few years, there are few places that were not touched and shaped by the ancient Roman Empire. From the UK to Turkey and far beyond. Even the width of the railroad…