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Travels

Last year (2020) on Earth Day, during Covid quarantine, I wished I could take a spin somewhere, anywhere . . .



(That tee shirt was 30 years old, which means I've probably worn it thirty times)


So far, the trip of my lifetime was
A "Smithsonian Journey" to Southern Italy in 2017.

  To ensure I'd remember as much of it as possible,

I wrote a photo essay of the trip




Below, from our 2018 trip to Florence, some of my favorite artistic monsters . . .




"Perseus freeing Andromeda" (c.1510) at the Uffizi.
I've always enjoyed Piero di Cosimo's grotesque depiction of the monster Cetus




Jason taking the Golden Fleece from the dragon,
at the Bargello. Pietro Francavilla, 1589




Cellini's Perseus with the Head of Medusa (c.1550)
in the Piazza della Signoria





Carravagio's Medusa (1597), the Uffizi.
The decapitated Gorgon isn't quite dead yet!

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Our last trip, before the Covid 19 pandemic grounded us, was a Smithsonian river-boat cruise
in April 2019 to Belgium and the Netherlands.
[more soon]