Holiday Travels, TN, NC, Italy January 12th 2008 Happy New Years everybody!!!
Hope you all had happy holidays, safe travels, and excellent new years celebrating! I had a splendid journey down to Tennessee to see alot of the family! The foothills of the Smokey Mountains was lovely as usual, and I thoroughly enjoyed the q.t. with the fam! Then I shot across North Carolina to visit my old stomping grounds on the Outer Banks and my friends t ... read more
Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more
And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour?
In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle the eyes.
-The Prophet; Kahlil Gibran... full info