A year has gone

There has been little real traveling for either of us in the last year. I did go to Florida for a week with a good friend from Norway. We camped in the Everglades for two nights, saw lots of alligators and a crocodile, biked, canoed, and generally had a great time. We also spent time in Miami and in Key West. Otherwise, all my traveling was dissertation or work-related. Last week, we jaunted off to Chicago to look for a place to live in Hyde Park. Our success remains an open question. We also had a chance to spend some time with good friends in Tacoma Park last weekend. The "travel" involved 15 hours round-trip in the car with a very, very patient child belonging to Wheat Thin. The part amidst the travel was wonderful: relaxing hours spent on our friends' porch and a spectacularly intense game of Taboo.

Summer has finally come "for reals" - and new travel plans are in the offing. B has already jetted off to Siena, where he is assisting a class of increasingly young college students to find their way around town. I go to Norway in a week, after which we meet in Cologne, Germany in mid-June. We'll be biking the Mosel Radweg from Metz to Koblenz, then some way along the Rhine. Roman ruins in Trier, Luxembourg, and the beauty of the Moseltal all beckon. Afterward, we return together to Italy through the beginning of August. So we hope to have pictures and stories aplenty to share!