Celebrating My Birthday in Venice!

              On the day of my birthday, I chose to purchase a 9-hour guided walking tour of the City of Venice, which as everyone knows is made of up 188 islands and 432 bridges.  I am sure I walked every single island and crossed each and every bridge! Of …

Time out for reflection….

  A time to sit and reflect on what I've seen and learned after an extremely hectic couple of days seems like a good thing.   First, I'm spending my first night in Venice, Italy.  It's 9 pm on Sunday evening here. Really I'm in Spinea, a little suburb 20 minutes from Venice proper in …