Today we traveled to Florence. Returning the scraped car at the Florence Airport, the attendant shrugged and suggested we buy him a coffee when he visits San Diego. A quick-ish…

Riding on the water We took the ferry to Desenzano because I wanted to shop at Vestopazzo! We ate lunch there then took the ferry back. The ferry pathIt was a pretty…

After recovering from our arrival, we went to look at Grotto Catullo, ruins of a Roman Villa. Here, we are hoping to have become Instagram famous. Check out our poses.Then…

We have arrived to this tiny peninsula by car. It was stressful as the road was overflowing with pedestrians. We managed only 1 scraped panel in a tight right hand…

Today, after hiking in Alpe di Siusi, we took the funicular up out of Ortisei to an altitude of roughly 2000m. As a reference, Ortisei is at 1236m. Once at the…

Today we took the cable car to Alpe di Siusi - Selser Alm. Arriving to Mont Seuc at 2005m. Here we decided on a fairly easy loop taking trails 6A…

Today we got 8.5 miles of hiking in (probably more with the walk to the Seceda lift & back). This is the entrance to the liftThis is a cable car then…

 It’s beautiful here, Here’s a photo dumpOur hotel is on the hill to the left of the cable carsThe hotel View from our room / patioA walk from the hotel to…

The Dolomiti are about a 3-4 hour drive from Milan. We will be here for 3 nights, staying at a half board hotel that provides a substantial breakfast buffet and…

The espresso here is amazing. I love these places where you order and drink espresso like it’s a bar. They had them all over Milan and during our drive to…