MomWonder, KidWonder and I just returned from a relaxing week in a house by Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire. Sunapee is a great place to spend a week. My Mom, Dad, sisters, brother-in-law, nieces and nephew came as well, and we spent the time alternating between sitting on the beach, grilling great food, and having great [...]

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I got back from Austin, TX early this morning, having journeyed to take part in the South by SouthWest Interactive Festival. Most of my team joined me in sunny Austin on Friday, and much transpired between then and Wednesday.
The good:
-Champagne while waiting in line to check into the Hyatt Regency
-Nice Weather
-Good Panels (LOL WUT)
-Weird Dude [...]

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MomWonder and I just returned from 5 days in Dulles, Virginia. It was KidWonder’s first plane ride, first hotel stay, well, first lots-of-things. He did excellently, as we had hoped. We started off in a tiny SAAB 340 Turboprop (~30 seats), tiny enough for the flight attendant to reseat everyone towards the back to make [...]

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If anyone is watching my Twitter logs, they might notice a bunch of posts by me today. I backdated the posts to the day I actually wrote in my travel log, 2 years ago, before I started blogging. I came across the travel log today and thought, since I had a bit of free time, [...]

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Shay has graciously spent hours today uploading our full picture set from Italy. Check it out: http://picasaweb.google.com/shaywade.
She wanted me to plug her blog too.

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So we’re heading back to NYC tomorrow, back to the cold. Life at the Hotel Diplomatic has been pretty good, we’ve slept and ate more than anything.There is still only one fulltime English channel on TV, CNN International, which shows the same news in a loop every 15 minutes. Not that its annoying, or anything. [...]

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So we had a nice day today. We took a day trip from Florence today, about 50 miles south to Siena. It was a great
day for a stroll down small, cobblestoned streets in a town that does not allow cars in its town center. We had a nice time walking around, seeing the town square [...]

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So I haven’t written a note in a few days. I feel like I’ve short changed everyone with short notes the last few times. So this is me catching up.
Venice was really nice and calm. There weren’t any crazy people hawking umbrellas and following us down the street trying to get us to buy something. [...]

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So we just rolled into the beautiful Santa Maria Novella train station in downtown Florence. It is lovely here - we just checked into the hotel Leonardo Da Vinci. (probably no relation to the actor)
We had a nice time in Venice, the Carnevale was pretty cool. The bulk of the action we saw took place [...]

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Not much to report for sights today, as it is laundry day. Tomorrow we’re taking the train to Venice for the weekend, so we’re tying up loose ends today. I figured it was as good a time as any to share some idiosynchracies of our week here. There was:

The guy in room 6 who saw [...]

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