BACK IN BONSALL

And here we are in Bonsall, looking across to horse training track and the San Luis Rey Golf Course. I call those hills across the valley my Tuscan hills. Can't tell I miss Italy, can you? This is nice here too......

Gene's first time in a motor shopping cart.

Waiting for the bus to take us to the airport from the hotel in Rome. It was quite a long trip back. In fact, a vvveerrryyyyy long trip when you go all the way to Calif without a few days on east coast. We had aranged a wheel chair for my brother, Gene, and that helped a lot. After a week of sleep and catch up to the hours, we went out to do a bit of shopping. This is the first time Gene got to drive a cart in the store. Didn't take him long to get the hang of that. Now I tease him about the reason he wants to go shopping.........just so he can drive the old 'you know what's' cart. Even tho' we miss Italy, this was pretty nice to come back to, here in the countryside of Bonsall.

TIME TO LEAVE.... BOO HOO

This is where we lived...... from our patio.

A Geox store in this old bilding. Old on outside, new inside.

One of our favorite restaurants. Fontana Vecchia. That fountain, the long cement trough, in the front has spring water in it and has been that way for 200 years. Very cold and fresh to drink.

A friend's Profumeria on that left corner.

During the last few months there, we sold our furniture. Jodi & Don said they wanted the Smart car. So they took the train down to us, packed the Smart car and drove back home. Sad as we were to let it go, we'll be able to see (and drive) it when we go see Don & Jodi. Before letting go, we took a ride down our streets in Formia and I did some random shooting of our favorite streets and scenes.

GETTING 2010 STARTED

Luke and Abby

Lago Varese (not too far from Lago Maggiore)

IT'S ABOUT TIME I GET SOME UPDATING DONE!!!! Well.......it's been a bit busy, as it is for everyone, I'm sure. So here we go. We spent New Year's in a little town in Italy, on Lago Trasimeno, with our friends that live there. Don and Jodi. We also stay there sometimes and cat sit. That's been on the Blog before. From there, we took the new Freccia Rosso (Fast Red train) up to Milano and took the local train to Varese, to see son, Craig and family, for a few days. After 4 days there, trained back to our Formia. 6 days later we were packing out to come back to the U.S. Yes...... it was time, for a few reasons, to get ourselves back to Bonsall, California.