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Europe 2014 – Torino – Sometimes What You Can’t See is Good for You
Timeline: September 30th We set off that Tuesday morning under cloudy and rainy skies, a condition that would follow us the entire day. We’d made a reservation at a B&B Hotel so weren’t too concerned about the weather or the amount of time it would take us to complete the days drive. The distance to […]
Europe 1984 – The Big Trip, Part Four
Florence is just an hour up the road from Siena and we arrived at our destination there, Camping Michelangelo and picked out a good spot. Located just down the hill from Piazza Michelangelo, the campground sits high above the River Arno about a 20-minute walk from central Florence. This would be my third stay; the […]
Europe 1984 – The Big Trip, Part Three
We set off sometime before noon planning to arrive in Siena later in the afternoon. During the preceding days I’d sold our little group on the campground where we would be staying, just outside Siena’s city walls. Sitting on a hillside, its terraced campsites overlooked a very nice swimming pool, one we would surely enjoy […]
Europe 1984 – The Big Trip, Part Two
We set out from Paris on July 25th to spend about a week traveling and camping along the Normandy coast. Our first stop was Rouen, famous as the place where Joan of Arc was executed in 1431. After two nights we drove south paralleling the coast, with the top down, through Dieppe, Le Havre, Honfleur, […]
Europe 1979 – The Adventure Continues
I returned briefly to Los Angeles in late 1977 and would then join Doug Hoggatt for nine months in Hemet (a time truly to be remembered), then six months living in the Sierra Nevada gold rush country (Murphy’s and Angels Camp) working for the State of California harvesting pine cones with Norm Benson, a gig […]
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