Getaway #2: Venice
When you've got a sudden unplanned sabbatical, and your frequent flier airline is in chapter 11, and your Italian friend invites you to stay with her at a conference in Venice, do you have any other option but to go?
Pictured: the view from Murano. (Thanks to the committee for the yummy seafood risotto).
Venetian for Pickup Truck
Same sport, very different demographic.
Local Wildlife
Now I see why these Italians are such avid hunters.
The basilica on Torcello, famous for its 6th century mosaics (with our humble crash pad in the backbround).
After dark, this island would be the ideal place for a killer game of sardines - if you can handle the ghosts.
Pictured: Cherub, Viola, and Grant outside the basilica.
