Colombia: Medellin sites
We don't normally sign up for tours on our travels, but some of the places we wanted to see weren't great areas for tourists to explore on their own, so we made an exception on this trip. Medellín: Comuna 13 Graffiti Tour with Street Food & Cable Car The first...
Colombia: Medellin food & drink
Poblado Restaurante Malevo - Our Comuna 13 tour started and ended at the Poblado metro station, so we decided to stay in this neighborhood for dinner. Empanadas sounded good, so we grabbed a table outside and ordered two each. Ham and cheese for Eric, and then...
Colombia: Medellin, intro and where we stayed
We like to go somewhere warmer in early February, so when we saw inexpensive airfares to Colombia we jumped on the opportunity. From North Carolina it took roughly as long as reaching the US West Coast, with a 2 hour and then a 3+ hour flight. For this trip we decided...
Florida 2026: Gainesville sites
Thursday The Harn Art Museum was partially closed for renovations during our visit, but several galleries were still open. The museum is free to visit and made for a pleasant hour. We especially liked the little pocket gardens and the etching station in the Japanese...
Florida 2026: Gainesville food & drink
Wednesday Humble Pie Wood Fired Pizza - Ordered two pizzas for takeaway, which were delivered to our table at the brewery next door. Nice! We got one margherita and one with walnuts and pesto. Crust was proper crispy and flavors were solid. Grand Scheme Brewing -...
Florida 2026: Sun Coast breweries and restaurants
Corporate Ladder - one of our favorite breweries, we visited twice. 1st visit! I got the coconut and chocolate Doppel Monitor (doppelbock) and Eric had a small pour of the Cherry Amaretti Cookie sour to start and a full pour of the Forti Animo Estote (strawberry, key...
Florida 2026: Sun Coast sites
Celery Fields - one of our favorite places to view birds, this free park has a few boardwalks into the wetlands and lots of parking. On this visit we saw a huge group of very noisy Nanday parakeets, boat-tail grackles, red winged blackbirds, gray-headed swamphens and...
Florida 2026: introduction
We generally like to visit Florida sometime in the winter, and this year we stayed at a friend's house to pet sit for part of our time. The weather was up-and-down, but it was always better than the cold January we would have had in NC! In fact, we ended up staying an...
2025 Year in Review
Previous years-in-review – 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 In 2025 our international travel took us back to South America and Asia for the first time since Covid, plus two trips to Europe. Some stats: 9...
Euro Trip 2025: Turin Luci d’Artista light festival
When researching Turin I came across the Luci d'Artista, a light festival that spans autumn into winter. We lucked out that the very first day for the lights was our last evening in Turin! We didn't have enough time to hunt all of them down, but we did check out more...
Euro Trip 2025: Turin sights
Turin is a large city, and even with most of a week we still only saw a few neighborhoods around the center. Sunday We arrived at the Porta Susa train station in the early afternoon - it was a long walk to the apartment but the tree lined streets were scenic and the...
Euro Trip 2025: Turin food & drink
With a full week in the city we were able to try a decent number of spots around town. Sunday Da Frasca - We were glad we had a reservation, as it is small and they did turn people away. I ordered the blue cheese gnocchiete with hazelnuts plus a house white (possibly...
2023 Trips
San Diego (Jan)
Orlando (Feb)
Richmond, VA (Apr)
Italy (Apr)
NC Mountains (May)
Wisconsin + Chicago
Rugby World Cup (Sept)
Seychelles (Nov)
2022 Trips
Florida (Feb)
NC Mountains (Apr)
Washington DC (Apr)
Valencia, Spain (May)
Hilton Head, SC (May)
Pacific NW (Jun)
Long Island (Jul)
Florida (Sept)
Chicago (Sept)
Poland (Sept)
NC Mountains (Nov)
Euro Xmas Markets (Dec)