Indelible Adventures

I guess I was born without the patience gene…I was told recently that my lack of patience is one of my most unattractive qualities, so I can only suppose that there are a bunch of others that were not elaborated on at the time. This week it came to the fore on two occasions when my inner frustrations were at near boiling me.  On each occasion they were associated with travel, and both during my trip to Philadelphia earlier this week.   As most of you know over the last seven or so years I’ve lived on a plane, primarily associated with my work, but also to accommodate my love of travel.  Last year I reached over 1,000,000 air miles on Air Canada and have spent literally hundreds of hours in security and customs lines over the years. Whenever I travel its always with carryon only, and in fact both Zach and Sami have been well trained in this area as well and so that whenever we go anywhere we only take carry on no matter where we’re going or for how long…its like a ru...

After almost two weeks in Italy I’m ready to get on that plane tomorrow and come home…back to reality if you will.    It’s been a great two weeks, but I’m ready to sleep in my own bed and be in own house again after a couple of hectic weeks of editing and non-stop writing.    Almost as if I need a holiday from my holiday, not sure I want to tell my boss that… Lake Como - my home for the past two weeks My progress to date has been good with seventeen chapters edited and high hopes of perhaps finishing another couple between today and tomorrow when I arrive home.   Realistically I’m going to need about 24 – 27 chapters to meet the 70,000 word requirement, which translates roughly into a 220 – 230 page book when its all said and done.   Yes, still much work to do! I’ve learned a lot through this process; firstly that my early writing was rather poor and somewhat patchy…and that on reflection much of it needed to be re-written with the exception of...

I arrived on Tuesday morning after an overnight from Toronto to Milan via Zurich.   From Milan’s Malpensa airport it is only about an hour and twenty minutes to get to my favorite part of the world - Lake Como and the northern Italian lakes.   They are truly spectacular and for some strange reason I feel completely at home here... go figure?   The ferry dock at San Giovanni di Bellagio Lake Como, Lombardia.  Italy   Last year I rented a one-bedroom apartment in a little fishing village 2 km south of Bellagio called San Giovanni di Bellagio and had a phenomenal, albeit short stay.   This year it was an easy choice as I’m in the middle of editing my book so needed lots of peace and quiet, and instantly thought of returning to San Giovanni.   I booked early enough to get the entire ten days which for this time of year is rather rare to say the least. When I arrived Carla was here to greet me and after a quick transition I was set to go. San...