You remember the ratfish incident in Port Harvey, right? (Click that link if you don't.) Well the ratfish has crept into many conversations since then…the weird "girl grabbing appendage" (called a tenaculum) on its head that grabs with little Velcro-like hooks onto the fin of the female ratfish during mating,…
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I forgot to post this photo from the other night. This is from the door of an antique shop down the street from us on Via di Santo Spirito. There's a portrait in there that's super creepy at night too…I'll try to get a shot of it tonight while it's…
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Today we started on the early side and headed across the river to the Gallerie dell'Accademia (9am reserved tickets) to see Michelangelo's David (among other things). I sneaked a forbidden photo. (Okay I snuck two.) There were also several unfinished sculptures by Michelangelo and it was so cool to see…
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We're at home now for a few days before heading back out for more Airstreaming. I'm standing here at my desk (actually, I'm standing on the trampoline in front of my standing desk), and hanging on the wall to my right is a thing that I love and wanted to…
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Some nice people on the internets decided to do a little makeover on our Sad Sad Spartan from Kentucky. I think it looks much happier now, don't you? Here's the original, in case you missed it: Thanks guys! 🙂
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Today was museum day. We started at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. This is a fantastic museum that needs more than the hour and a half we were able to give it…but we do what we can do. We of course couldn't miss Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen's Shuttlecocks…
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Our 5-year old nephew Ryan drew this yesterday as his homework. I love that he sees it so colorfully. (But where are all the unicorns??)
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After our Cuban lunch yesterday we took a drive and walk around the Wynwood Arts District. Wynwood is an area with a large number of art studios and galleries and is home to the Wynwood Walls — an outdoor permanent mural exhibit featuring some of the worlds most renowned street artists. There…
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