Hi all, I figured we owed you all a proper update out­lining our plans for the next little while, aside from the cryptic ref­er­ence to detours and cheap flights in the last post. On April 26 we will be leaving Lanciano, heading north on a train to a town near Milan called Piacenza. Laura’s friend [...]

Here are some older photos from the land­scape of central Turkey in the area known as Cappadocia. I’m also just fin­ish­ing a post about Lanciano for you before I con­vince Chris and my girl friend to retire to the apart­ment to watch more of the “Sopranos”.

I hate when people ask me if I’m a pho­to­grapher. Sometimes it’s the gear that prompts this. They see the expens­ive looking camera, or maybe pick up my kit for a moment and are taken aback by how heavy it is. “Whoa! You must be a pho­to­grapher.” Maybe it’s the final shots that have them whoa-ing, [...]

Hi guys! Just to reas­sure you in regards to our April Fool’s joke (hee,hee) we are actu­ally safe and sound in Italy. We are hanging out in my old stomp­ing ground of Lanciano where I went to high school at the Canadian College of Italy (CCI). Chris and I are both working on photos to [...]

Coming out of the mosque I put my purse down to free my hands and aid in my safe journey back down the awkward, eroded carved steps. Suddenly the world was in slow motion as I heard my bag shift. Even though the top was sealed with Velcro, the only two objects similar in size [...]