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Our cruise took us to Turkey for a day, where the temps were over 100 degrees…  We braved it for a tour of Ephesus (as in, the Ephesians) and lunch in Kusadasi:

Like many others today, I eagerly awaited the 10AM announcement and watched multiple “live blogs” as the event took place.  My takeaways: the iPad is underwhelming but may be a good start towards a product we’ll all be using regularly someday.
Lets look at the good:

Easy, portable web browsing: Definitely something worthwhile, the ability to browse [...]

We spent my birthday, August 22, in Rhodes, Greece.  A great town that is easily walkable, we spent the day at the beach and doing some minor shopping (by our standards):

Our summer cruise took us to Athens as our second stop.  There we hired a driver to take us to some of the most notable places.  Thanks to his help we saw much of Athens, in only 8 hours.  Here are some notable shots:

Stop #1 in our Celebrity Ancient Empires Cruise last summer: Naples & Pompeii.  Check out some photos:

It occurred to me that I have never put up the best photos from our trips last year.  Especially our 13-night Mediterranean cruise.  We started our trip with 3 days in Rome.  Here are some pics:

Anyone who has recently used Craigslist has to have noticed a few things: the rate of success is less and the rate of spam is increased.  Take in part the car that I’ve been trying to sell, for about 3 months.  I have fielded phone calls from people who want to help me sell it, [...]

I took a chance recently on one of these Philips “Energy Lights”…  Now, we all know that Seasonal Affective Disorder is a real thing and apparently, some countries have large percentages of their population that suffer from it (Philips = Dutch, where the rate is over 10%).  With the short days and cold weather, who [...]