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Our last three stops were Split and Rovinj in Croatia, and then we disembarked in Venice (sadly). We had been to Split last year on our honeymoon so knew it quite well. We booked a tour which took us to the old city, Ivan Meštrović’s old home and museum (famous sculptor from the area), and [...] We awoke at 4:00 am in Venice, caught a water taxi to the airport at 4:45, a flight to Rome at 6:00 am, a flight to Chicago at 11:30 am, then connected to San Francisco around 7:00 pm Chicago time, arriving in SFO around 10:00 pm Pacific Time. The truck battery had drained and [...] Some updates: Corfu, Greece I woke up in time to watch us arrive and berth next to the pier here – a beautiful setting and our last day in Greece, a nation we have come to love. Corfu is the northern-most part of Greece, an island to boot, a mere three mile straight separating it from the mainland [...] This morning we transited the Corinth canal aboard the Seabourn Spirit. What an incredible experience! We had crossed this canal by road when we travelled the Peloponnesian Peninsula last year. Then, we had seen a small sailboat which seemed to fill the canal. Today, our ship totally filled it [...] Back to travel posts. This was written Monday June 25th: As I compose this post Mel and I are flying back to South Lake Tahoe from Norfolk, VA where we participated in our friend Lisa’s wedding. We didn’t make our air reservations till late and ended up booking an award on American Airlines. [...] Seems like it is all over in our neighborhood – the normal sounds are returning. Doug across the street is running his saw installing new facia boards on his house, the dogs are barking, kids running around. We’re not going to unpack just yet, but we are confident the neighborhood is safe. After a windy day [...] Containment now reported at 55%. So much for what I heard yesterday. The forecast is for high winds today, 20 – 30 mph with higher winds on passes and over ridgetops. That is bad. I guess it is too much to ask for them to hold off a second day in a row. This morning is dead [...] We ran for some errands and got a view of the fire from enough distance to see that there is only light, white-colored smoke coming from it and not very much at that. The wind is blowing, but not gusting particularly, and the helicopters are still flying. I assume they are putting out hot spots [...] The winds have not come up all that strong this afternoon – at least yet! The forecast gusts up to 40mph aren’t here. It is blowing 10 – 20 mph I understand. I hear helicopters flying now, which is good, I guess. Ironically, they cannot fly without some wind to clear the smoke [...] Monitoring the nearby forest fire on our anniversary was not how I had evnisioned our day today. Yesterday was exciting (see previous posts). We slept at home last night and are fine. We slept well, mostly from exhaustion… This morning the smoke is hanging low in the trees and the wind is dead [...] |
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