Now That’s a Big Seal!
You can click on most of the images to enlarge them. Full-size, high-resolution versions are available in our Google Photos album. On one of my motorcycle trips down the coast through San Simeon, I’d passed a beach whose parking lot was jammed with cars. Because the beach itself was jammed
That Little Ranch in San Simeon
You can click on most of the images to enlarge them. Full-size, high-resolution versions are available in our Google Photos album. We’ve visited Hearst Castle several times over the years, but either the tours have gotten a lot better or our memories are totally shot, because the experience was much
Cambria
You can click on most of the images to enlarge them. Full-size, high-resolution versions are available in our Google Photos album. We decided to take a quick trip to Hearst Castle before the winter rains set in. We’d been there before, many years ago, but barely remembered the trip. Rather
Murphy Loves Water Heaters!
We had to replace our tankless water heater last June, and while the new unit (same make/model, a Navien NPE-24A2) works great, the hot water isn’t always instantly there when we want it. That’s probably because the installer set it to “intelligent” mode, where it tries to learn our usage
Italy, 2024
There’s an online high resolution photo gallery of our trip available here. This post is the table of contents for all the articles I wrote about our October, 2024, trip to Florence, Venice and Rome. Here are the hotels we stayed at, all of which were excellent. Layover in Rome:
Italy, Day 13: Exploring Fora
You can enlarge many of the images in this post by clicking them. High resolution versions of the images, and many more besides, are available from our online photo gallery. We’d had so much fun seeing sights as we strolled about Rome yesterday, we decided to walk to the forum.