Travel to Cuba Now Legal for Americans. Nice! I was one of the last from the U.S. to legally travel to Cuba, in 2003. (Hard to believe it’s been 7 years.) There’s been a 50 odd year embargo, with some exceptions here and there, including academic-related ones from 2000 to 2003. Restrictions have finally been eased again:

On June 28, Insight ( Read more... )

Today was the all day ride, so we packed sandwiches and plenty of water and headed back to the stables. The first part of the ride was a partial reprise of yesterday's. We got up to the Middle Fork ford and then took another trail from the other side of that creek. This was a very pleasant ride up -- switch backs all up the side of this mountain ( Read more... )

I didn't really think about it being 9/11 today, to be honest. But riding up into the mountains to enjoy a lovely day 11K above sea level strikes me as a fitting way to reject the strictures and fears that terrorism tries to instill in its targets ( Read more... )

Will of course update soonish, but here I am in Heathrow, waiting for my gate to come up on the info board and lugging around a ridiculously large bottle of scotch (Glayva, for anyone who actually knows anything about whiskeys) for a friend...

sometime this week. Phew! Looks like it's supposed to break over the next couple of days, but it's still above 75F/25C at the moment (an hour and a half since sunset) so, meh ( Read more... )

It's been at the back of my mind I'd like to do a long train trip as a travel trip in of itself. Something like across the US (or Canada!) by train, or maybe from San Diego to Vancouver or something. So I've been poking around a bit, and I'm still mulling on this (will probably do this next summer, but we'll see) but this is one of the funnier ( Read more... )

All saints day today -- Whups, its a holiday...

Museo Nazionale (Terme?)
need to double check this day

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Farmer's Market
#23 to Trastavere
Santa Celia in Trastavere
San Francesco a Ripa
Santa Maria in Trastavere
Orange Juice in p.
Lunch on embankment by L'isola
Pantheon
Coffee Shop
Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
Via Pie de Marmol
Sant'Ignacio di Loyola
San Luigi dei Francesi
#81 to Risorgamento
shopping!
dinner
San Pietro at night again

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metro to Flaminio
Santa Maria del Popolo (last chance at those caravaggio!)
Palazzo Barberini
San Carlo alle Cuattro Fontane
San'Andrea al Quirinale
Palazzo de Quirinale (serendipity)
Hostaria Danasina (lunch)
San Giulia (street)
San Giovanni dei Florentini (sp?)
San Luigi dei Francesi (caravaggio)
Zanardelli, #492 to flat

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metro/bus to Tivoli
Villa d'Este
Villa Adriana
back to Rome

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