See our full collection of pictures from our trip HERE. Traveling to Italy The forecast for Wednesday night in Denver showed rain that was to have been heavy at times, but as is usually the case in Denver, the forecast was wrong, at least it was in our neighborhood. After a very warm day, the […]

Rome Landing in Rome, we successfully navigated the obligatory immigration maze the airport architect took great delight in designing to properly greet and confuse visitors. This maze phenomenon certainly isn’t exclusive to Rome. There are immigration mazes at every international airport. Maybe there’s a rule book somewhere that oversees the immigration layout process with the […]

The Vatican Amy’s alarm woke us at just after 5:00 am so all could be ready to go by 6:30 for breakfast and to be on the coach that took us to the Vatican for our VIP tour of the museum, Sistine Chapel, and the Basilica of St. Peter, the largest church in Christendom – […]

We left Rome on a flight that departed the gate on time but was called back for the mechanics to check an unusual reading on a system. The delay cost us about 90 minutes and was resolved with a simple computer restart, but still caused some fretting and worry for us. As I write this, […]