Day 2 started out with breakfast made by Jimi. A simple egg & potato dish and a fruit platter… well he made it look simple. Pienza For our first day trip, we drove the clan to Pienza. This was our first exposure to the small meat and cheese shops we quickly fell in love with. …
Category Archives: Travels
Italy 2010 Day 1
Podere Monti After the stress and chaos of waiting for everyone to arrive, renting 2 huge diesel vans, ramming everyone’s luggage into said vans and driving for 3 hours, we finally arrived at our temporary home, a villa in the small town of Montepulciano. Podere Monti is a 7-room bed & breakfast and we managed …
Italy bound
Bonjourno, today our Italian adventure begins. We’ve been talking about this for months and I can’t sit still. I packed all sorts of camera gear and 2 shirts… We’ll fly out of SFO, stop over in Washington DC and then on to Rome. I’ll try to update the blog daily but I don’t know what …
48 in the 50th
Made a quick trip to Honolulu for work. When I checked in at the Sheraton, they informed me that I would receive a complimentary upgrade to an ocean view room. My enthusiasm was quickly dampened when I opened my curtains. As usual I was only there for about 48 hours and worked long days. I …
One step closer…
Today the mailman delivered my carbon fiber tripod that I intend to use in Italy. It should be able to handle my G11 & mark II. I’m bringing so much camera gear there’s only enough room for 2 days worth of clothes. I think I’ll bring 2 canisters of deodorant.
Potato Land
Had to make a trip to Idaho. Unfortunately for me the worlds largest Basque festival started the day I arrived. I could not get a car rental reservation to save my life. I ended up taking a taxi for a 50 mile drive… $150 each way. This took so much time that I missed my …
Our Vacation 2010
In September we plan to go to Italy and it’s all we talk about. The tickets have been purchased via my AMEX miles, WooHoo. We’ll stay in a villa with 12 other family & friends somewhere in the Tuscany area. I don’t even know exactly where…I don’t care. I’m just happy were going. I’ve been …
Road Trip
Had to go to Porterville the other day. Stopped off at Traver Cafe 99 for dinner and to check out some of their animals. That son of a biscuit almost got my camera!
Honolulu March 2010
Spring maintenance due. Weather not so good. I did manage to bring back a SPAM cookbook for Sandy.
Cheese it
I had a trip to Sonora today and I turned off the road immediately when I saw the Oakdale Cheese Factory. I bought myself a bag of Gouda Cheese Curds. As I strolled out back I saw a number of of farm animals. You think they make llama cheese? I don’t wanna be the one …