Well…I thought it was something that I was or wasn’t doing that my daughter was reacting to, but of course, I was wrong…she has been having a painful shingles attack and forgot her medicine for it…and I feel so bad for her…she’s not old enough to get the vaccine until next year so she just has to deal with it and it hurts every time she walks…man, I couldn’t have been more stupid…we had a nice meal at an outdoor restaurant tonight and I had wide fettuccini with wild boar sauce that was made with red wine and it was one of the best things I’ve ever tasted…and she had a cheese pizza that had the best sauce on it…very yummy and the setting was so cool…just sitting outdoors on a street in Florence with the breeze blowing and church bells ringing…and the light and soft air just said Italy to me…very cool…
Crap…I’m getting depressed…
Well…crap…starting to feel depression coming on and it’s the last thing I need right now…I wonder if it’s from the stress of the trip? And then you say “how the hell can you be depressed when you are in Italy?” I did get a nice new leather wallet yesterday that is really cool and makes my bag smell good so maybe I can think about that? And all the fun we’ve had and are going to have in Rome? And I tried to pay my daughter for my end of the trip but she said to buy air conditioning for my house instead…could that be part of it? Cripes, I’ve paid my way my whole life and now she gives me this trip and the UK one and I don’t know how to act…but that’s on me and I just need to get over it…it is nice to spend time with her and I wonder if this probably being the last time is part of it? Whatever it is it’s my job to not let this bleed over into the rest of the trip and ruin it…yow! This is like a therapy session…how the hell can I be 73 years old and still feel unsure…man, it really is a bitch getting old…
Still feel like it’s my fault…
Well…after the museum this morning, we found that there really isn’t anything else we want to do here in Florence so we took the afternoon off to just relax and recover…and I still feel like it’s my fault that I didn’t do the homework to keep us busy for our time here…I can’t expect my daughter to do everything and keep me amused but I guess I look at it like we are resting up for Rome and will be back at full speed tomorrow…I think she feels stressed out about having to plan it all when I like having time to do nothing after walking 25 miles here…so as of tonight, I am going to make sure I make decisions to match her…no anything you want or that bullshit that I do trying to make sure she does things she wants to do and not just me…but that hasn’t worked so far and I really don’t know how to fix it…maybe I’m reading into it something that isn’t there? Yeah, probably…but that’s been me my entire life so how can I change now? She just doesn’t look happy and I hate that…crap…
This trip has worn me out…
Well…damn, it’s a bitch getting old…and this trip has worn me out to the point that I’m looking forward to going home and we still have Rome to go…okay, no, I shouldn’t whine like that…it’s probably my last chance to spend time with my daughter when I am still capable of doing things…and I need to remember that…she has been a trouper and keeps us organized while I really don’t know enough about the places we’ve visited to be of much help with suggestions of what to see and do…and I’m kicking myself that I didn’t do the work it takes for a long trip like this…oh, well…I get to see Galileo this morning and it’s really cool that DaVinci, Galileo, and Michelangelo lived here at the same time…and Mark Twain lived here for years in the 1800’s…I look at the history of this part of the world and the US crowing abut 250 years when this place has been here for thousands gives some perspective on how young the US is…and has made another part of the world real to me like the UK trip did…I am going to enjoy this last week here…and I still have 250 euros in cash to spend by the end of the week since I am really trying to not have any left when we go home…it’s 9am here and I need to get ready to go…62 degrees and sunny so I need to sunscreen this old skin…
The stupidity, it burns…
Well…how stupid can the idiot trump get? A lot it appears as he rejected a deal with Iran that gave him everything he said he wants…opening of the Hormuz strait, UN inspectors for Iran’s nuclear program, and an immediate cease fire…but the moron in chief said no and I think it’s because it’s the same deal that Obama had in place before idiot boy tore it up…and now the US and the rest of the world suffers because this asshole can’t take it when he is no better than the black man that he hates more than anything…I really think he is just that stupid…Iran gives him an off ramp and the only thing he can think about is what else he can get from them…I know he wants their oil as he stole in Venezuela and he thinks in such simple terms that it’s like negotiating with a 4 year old…gimme, gimme, gimme is the only thing he understands as the US economy craters and we are held hostage to his ego…I think the American people have had enough of his bullshit and are going to make the repubs pay big this fall…and he doesn’t care…the repubs know they are getting killed in the election but idiot boy doesn’t care…it won’t effect him and his stupid ballroom or sniper arch so he blunders on thinking he holds the cards as it’s been reported…38 days and he’ll see the world of hurt he’s in…geez…
September 27th
Well….up and moving at 6am this morning on our last day in Florence…going to the Galileo museum this morning and I am looking forward to that…my feet and legs were pretty puffy from all the walking we’ve been doing so I put my knee high compression socks on to try to get them to get a little back to normal and I think it worked some and I’m happy bout that…I still can’t believe all of the art we’ve seen on this trip and yesterday seeing the 17 foot tall statue of David done by Michelangelo was a highlight…and we saw an unfinished statue by him with the drill marks from cutting away the marble…pretty cool to see his work in progress…the power just went out in my room and a breaker tripped so I had to go down to the desk and and get them to reset it…might have been the induction kettle that I had on to heat water for the first cup of coffee for the morning…looking forward to another day with my daughter as we get into the final leg of the trip…even with eating a lot I still think I’ve lost weight with all the walking and that’s pretty cool…but I think it will take a week or so to get back to normal…if I can…after the trip…back in town in one week…more later…
Tired and sore…
Well…damn, I’m getting old…sore as heck and just exhausted and I think my daughter is feeling the same way since we did everything we wanted to do today and then bailed back here at a little after 2pm…and we are going to skip dinner and just get some rest this afternoon and that is going to involve reading and taking a nap with getting up at 5am today…we did get our guided tour to see Michelangelo’s David and the huge cathedral here that took 3 hours and took everything out of me…my right foot is pretty swollen and I need to put it up this afternoon…the tour was fun with out guide Klaus and he knew everything about the time that Michelangelo was doing the Pieta and David and I learned a lot about him…so that was cool…tomorrow we go to the Galileo museum and that will be cool…but right now I’m going to take a break for the day and just veg a bit…just frickin worn out…
Played for the fool he is…
Well…there has never been one person who has done more to wreck the US power and standing in the world that the asshole trump and we are all going to pay for it…and when Xi from China was here last week, he showed what a fool the idiot trump is by insulting him to his face as idiot boy stood there saying he has a “great relationship” with Xi and grinning like the fool he is…and as this farce of a meeting took place and idiot boy lied that he had made “great progress” with Xi, China is arming Iran and is helping them modernize their drone and missile forces along with giving them satellite information that Iran has used to target our facilities in the mid east…and Xi openly said that the US was in decline and China was the world’s “rising power” and he was laughing at idiot boy as he stood there with that stupid grin on his face…this moron has done more damage to the US than any other person in history and now we are the declining power that Xi talked about…and it’s all trump’s fault…gez…
September 25th
Well…up and running at 5am this morning which has even become normal 6 hours earlier than in the US…and I think that’s pretty weird but I haven’t been anywhere to test that theory…had a good day yesterday with it being a travel day but still got a museum in with a lot of old masters that were painted from the 1200s to the 1500s…taking a tour of the huge old cathedral this morning but will be done about noon and then have the rest of the day to just explore…I just may spend 100 euros to find some leather goods that they say are an “investment” since they are not cheap but we’ll see…we’ll probably explore around here after lunch and I do want to see the 1000 year old covered bridge that I saw from the museum yesterday…I really do think this will be my last trip and I’m not sure how I feel about that…I am so ignorant about modernity in hotels that I didn’t know to put the room key in a slot inside the door to make the lights work and I am a little embarrassed abut that…oh, well…you can’t know everything when you don’t travel a lot…off we go to another day…more later…
In Florence…
Well….another busy travel day on our trip and we are in Florence today and have already done one museum tout and will have a tour of the cathedral tomorrow and the Galileo museum on Sunday morning…Florence is a frenetic city with action, action, action and even more people than Venice but add in cars on the packed streets and it is kind of surreal…nothing but Italian on the tv here so I’m using it to mask my tinnitus that has been really bad…and I am damn sore everywhere that I will have to treat with a lot of Ibuprofen to be able to get through it…the train ride was cool and so damn comfortable and I wonder why planes can’t have seats that good…our hotel is only a 15 minute walk from the train station and we’ll do that again when we leave for Rome Monday afternoon…I need rest…this 73 year old body may be getting some permanent damage…I tried to pay my daughter for my part of the trip but she said no and told me to have one of the new add on ac units installed for about 1300 bucks…they are 9-12,000 btu’s and cool the whole house along with heat it…we had one in our first hotel and it was pretty cool…so I just might…