Bananas Don't Travel Well

Thinking back to our stay in Italy three weeks ago, it seems sort of a blur. One thing we discovered straight away is that ten years has made redeye flights considerably more difficult to recover from. (I recall feeling tired, but not the depression that it now seems to bring on). As a result, our first few days found us wandering the streets of Rome in a daze.

Help I'm being eaten by snakes: detail of Lacoan's sonAfter weeks of stressing and packing finally we left San Francisco for Toronto. Leaving San Francisco was no small feat. It involved attempting to sell, and in the end give away, most of our stuff (thank god for www.craigslist.org), and packing for this trip.