http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Moose and Squirrel/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Moose and Squirrel en-us Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:19:10 UTC Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:19:10 UTC Okay so we are not in Venice but did just leave Venice. Finally able to send a few pics from Italy. Please note is was difficult to pick from our 600 pics.Hard to pick favorite things but here are some of my favorites. Loved hiking in Cinque Terre and in the Dolomites. Very different and very beautiful. And all the trails had a lot of up and I still loved it. Granted I complained a bit just http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-263375.html Bottle of red bottle of white. . . Okay not really. More like a glass or a mezzo litre. But it's still good baby Here in the land of Romeo and Juliet we're just taking it easy walking looking around. A bit laid back. Weather is wonderful and warm so we don't even have to carry rain gear. Verona is not that full of sights so you don't feel quite the pressure to always do something. Today we http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-261623.html Ciao. Left the Dolomites behind this morning. Truly spectacular and hard to come up with the appropriate adjectives. Seeing Otzi the ice man was truly cool also. Chilling. Actually frozen. He is still kept pretty chilled so he doesn't decompose. We did some good hiking and I had a Radler in good old german fasion. We are now in Verona. Home of those young lovers Romeo and Juliet. Jim and I are a http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Veneto/Verona/blog-261294.html Ciao. Yes I know not much blogging lately. We left San Casciano yesterday. We wwoofed for 9 days and stayed and extra day cause we found out buses dont run on Pasqua Easter. We did get to enjoy Easter lunch with our wwoof family. They were great. Kirsten Pascal Rudy Oliver and Anna. We had a great time and felt like part of a large italian family. And did I mention the food. Incredible. We http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Lucca/blog-259582.html Okaywhen we are paying by the hour hard to take time to be creative. Mi scusi. All is well. We enjoyed hiking the Cinque Terre. Hiked our butts off cause a lot of up and down. MA Hoskins you should come hike it. You would love it. We have been eating a lot and enjoying it. Jim ate a large portion of a whole cow last night. A la Vanessa style it was still mooing. We are in Florence. One word f http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-256343.html Ciao. We continue to have a great time. We had a great local dining experience last night. The waiter did not speak English and Jim wasn't sure what he was ordering but all turned out well. Jim also picked out a wonderfully delicious dessert by sight which we both enjoyed. The irony to the dining experience was the owner's children bringing in McDonald's bags and eating the stuff their in the re http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-254695.html ciao. scusi the typing. punctuation hard and im too lazy to find it and want to type fast since im paying per hour here at the internet place here in genoa. having a great time. wwoofing was great. darcy and adolpho were great hosts and yes we worked our butts off. but on the flip side we were able to eat a lot. you are asking what did we do. well we scooped horse and donkey poop and filled buc http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-254286.html Rome is over and now we're off to the country. Right now we are killing time in the Spoleto train station until our bus comes. We took the train from Rome this amso far so good. I had booked us seats that were back to back by mistake but the train wasn't full so we just sat elsewhere. No problemo. Short trip of about an hour and a half. Squirrel just called our host and she said she would have l http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Umbria/Spoleto/blog-251571.html Ciao. In Rome. Computer keys a bit different so excusi for mistakes. Day of arrival. Napped one hour after getting to hotel okay so we are old but then went and walked all over according to Mooseo. We did the Spanish Steps Trevi Fountain and a church St. Maria I believe. Delicisio dinner and since Mooseo hates when I write about food I'll tell you what we had. Antipasto was pruschetto http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-251134.html I Love New York City That said Squirrel and Niece of Squirrel had a marvelous time. Well at least I think we did. Squirrel of niece is a teenager so I'm not completely sure about the marvelous time being mutual but I think a good time was had by all. Banning fast food from our NYC diet seemed like a good idea to this 44 year old but I think squirrelly niece I mean Niece of Squirrel might t http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-248077.html Ciao. The adventure continues. In two weeks we leave for Italy. Will Moose and Squirrel maintain their witty banter during travel in a nonenglish speaking country Will there be camping Okay I can go ahead and answer the second question with an emphatic no. Will there be wwoofing The answer to this question is yes. Yet your next question may be what the heck is wwoofing. Well since we http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Tennessee/Knoxville/blog-245346.html A few of our favorite things.1Best backpacking experience Yellowstone with our dear friend Silverchin2Favorite comment from gentleman in the Prospect Oregon laundrymat in response to my leavingreturning to laundrymat with detergent. ldquoI reckon that the washing machine washes them so good I donrsquot use detergentrdquo.3Favorite bedGuest bedroom of Joe and Diana4Moosersquos f http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Tennessee/Knoxville/blog-214376.html Well folks it looks like we're coming home. After hanging out in Longmont for 5 unprecendented nights and getting to see snow we decided to end the trip and return. Winter is closing in on the high country and our plans to visit relatives in Nebraska didn't pan out. Granted we could have visited the World's Largest Ball of Twine or the World's largest Prairie Dog but the Barbed Wire Museum http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Kansas/blog-213190.html We have a new contest. We're giving you a collection of photos and you can vote for you favorite. The winning Hoodoo will be turned into a temporary tatoo or something. So send in your votesMooseEnjoyed Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado. Lovely campsite with fun visit to petroglyph sites. Just got ahead of the snow to arrive in Longmont Colorado on 102007. Now resting and relaxing http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Colorado/blog-212163.html We did have a lovely stop in a lovely coffee shop in a lovely little town yesterday. However a chai as delicious as it was and 12 muffin and a bit of a small scone do not make a good breakfast for a 8.6 mile hike with a fair amount of elevation gain loss gain loss. And did I mention our dinner the night before was apple pie a la mode I didn't have enough to keep me going. Well I did kee http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Utah/Moab/blog-211507.html We are enjoying our morning coffee and scones yes in a wonderful coffeehouse in Torrey Utah. It is built of timbers with interesting rocks plastered into the wall a wood stove in one corner books all round soothing music playing the smell of coffee. Ahhh. It's called the Robber's Roost because near here was the hideout of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The synchronicity starts here. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Utah/Capitol-Reef/blog-211191.html A couple on an extended vacation books a room at an outoftheway BB. This will be the beginning of an unusual journey a journey of both sight and sound. They've done this kind of thing many time before and they are not concerned. They will leave the main road and pass through a series of gates but what they don't realize is that on the other side of the last gate lies the TwiLodge Zone.We bo http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Utah/Bryce-Canyon/blog-210220.html Lori Wins Finally Dave gets a runnerup award for guessing the right direction but Lori scores the win for stating the correct destinationUtah parks. We spent a few days in Zion and stopped by Cedar Breaks. Now we are in Bryce for a couple days. More later.Moose http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Utah/Zion-National-Park/blog-210217.html That is the travel trivia question. Where are Jim and Susan now Its Sunday October 7th. We left California this morning. We headed south from Three Rivers California and got on 58 East. We then had to make a decision when 58 split into I40 and I15. I15 goes through Vegas to Utah I40 goes to Arizona and the Grand Canyon. Which way did we go and what is the destination where we will be on Mon http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/blog-209258.html Two hikes two different parks two different experiences. One provided an opportunity to connect with nature one not so much. They shared some things traffic road construction lots of people. But they differed in important ways. The difference is due mostly to my perception yet it is real enough to me. Perhaps in the future I will find a way to make them the same. I hope so.Hike 1 Yosemite. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Sequoia-National-Park/blog-208655.html