Despite the best efforts of O’Hare Airport, we did actually make it back to Texas at more or less the scheduled time. More later, after about a million hours of sleep. In a bed with actual SHEETS and not a DUVET.

…turns out, I don’t like Florence that much. It’s just too much. Too big, too busy, too full of people, and this is the off season. I can only imagine the hellscape that it is during high season.

Toby and I have been wondering how many phones you can find at the bottom of the Venetian canals.

Back during the Japan trip I had this app from bubb.li that allowed me to take 3D photos (called ‘bubbles’) of a space. I still have that app. Here’s a bubble of the fabulous apartment with the FANTABULOUS view across the Venetian lagoon that we’re in, taken at juuuust the right time of day to…

Many restrooms in train stations in Italy are pay toilets—you pay 1 euro or so for access. (One in Mexico I went to did it one better: access was free but you paid a few pesos for a handful of toilet paper!) The station in Ravenna was no different. However, it had been built with…