Geo: 40.4238, 15.0078 We got up Wednesday morning early to catch the boat to Naples. We found the bus to the Archaeological museum and headed there. There are alot of frescoes, mosaics, pottery and statues from Pompeii. There was a mosaic there that had over a million pieces of tile about 1/16x1/16 each. Its amazing that so much stuff survived the volcano. I forgot to talk about the weather. It has been in the mid eightys and sunny every day. The only bad thing is the humidity. It has been very humid, about 85%. By the end of our day we are pretty ragged. We left the museum and followed a Rick Steve's tour of Naples. We walked from the museum down to the boat docks. We stopped for pizza. Naples is supposedly the birthplace of ... read more

Geo: 40.6263, 14.3757 Well, I figured out how to make the internet faster. Move out into the hallway and away from the 2 foot thick walls of our room! We got up on Saturday morning and walked down to the boat docksto go to Capri. The people at the hotel said that it was a 10 minute walk. Oh right! It was 1.4 miles mostly downhill. Anyway, we got tickets and boarded the high speed jet boat. It took about 20 minutes to get there. Just us and about a million of our friends. The place was a zoo! We got in line to buy tickets for the funicular. We got in line to take the funicular up to the village of Capri. We got in line to get bus tickets to Anacapri. We got in ... read more

Geo: 38.6262, -121.325 We leave tomorrow, after we pick up our rental car. We drive to S.F., check into our hotel and drop the car off at the airport. Get some Euros, check our flights and take the shuttle back to the hotel. Wednesday we take the shuttle to the airport. Our flight leaves at 8:00AM for Toronto. We have a 3 hour layover and then we head for Rome. We get into Rome at 9:45AM on Thursday. We pick up the car near the airport and we are on our way. How far we get depends on how much sleep we got on the plane. We might visit a large castle on our way to Sorrento or we might find the nearest hotel to crash in. I'm sure we will be wide awake when we ... read more

Geo: 40.4879, -106.836 We got up this morning and headed out to Rocky Mountain NP. This time we drove thru the entire park. What beautiful scenery! Similar, but different than the Sierras. Stacy really wanted to see a moose during this trip and low and behold we saw a bunch of cars on the side of the road near a wetland and we stopped. There was a female moose about 100 feet from where we stood. She was feeding. She hung around for around five minutes and then headed away into the field. While we were watching her a huge male appeared by her side. What luck! A little while later we saw a marmot being harassed by a bird. It must have been near the birds nest. Later we saw an elk out in a ... read more

Geo: 38.8331, -104.822 We got up this morning and had breakfast. There are 3 other couples staying at this b&b. It is nice to talk with other people from other states and countries. Our hosts are a blast. The man is 79 and still doing all of the maintainence at the house, including climbing a 25 foot ladder to replace a window. I hope that I am still that mobile at 79! We headed for Garden of the Gods. It is still really interesting. I was there in around 1966, and climbed all over the rocks. Now, you can't climb on them unless you get a permit. After that, we headed to the Pikes Peak highway and took it to the top of Pikes Peak. The altitude is 14,110 feet. The tempurature dropped 20 degrees during ... read more