Travel Stories
Read our travel stories. We write about our highlights, travel stories we love to remember, and our debacles, travel stories we’d like to forget but just can’t.
Joy Of Walking And Biking – Active Towns Podcast Interview
This article may contain affiliate / compensated links. For full information, please see our disclaimer. Our Recent Interview with John Simmerman of Active Towns. Check out this May 2020 Active Towns Podcast interview of us where we describe our love of our walkable and bikeable lifestyle living in town center Boulder CO and organizing the Mapleton Hill PorchFest — a neighborhood-based front-porch music festival held annually here in Boulder, Colorado. We also discuss in this interview the travel guidance we are now offering on our FollowOurFootprints travel blog based on our years of travel in Europe. In the interview, we touch on such subjects as the joy and cost-savings associated…
My Laptop Was Stolen in the Perugia Bus Station!
This article may contain affiliate / compensated links. For full information, please see our disclaimer. My Laptop Was Stolen While I Was Waiting For The Bus. My Laptop was stolen in the Perugia Bus Station! How did it happen? There was no way to find the thief and no way I was going to get it back. It was an expensive mistake and cost me a day of sightseeing. Next time, I will be more careful to hang on to my laptop bag so it doesn’t become a target for thieves. How Did My Laptop Get Stolen? On the day we were to leave Perugia to travel by bus to Siena,…
Underground Perugia – Not In Our Travel Guide?
This article may contain affiliate / compensated links. For full information, please see our disclaimer. What’s So Special About Perugia Perugia is a lovely medieval Tuscan city. Most people in the US would remember Perugia as the college town where exchange student, Amanda Knox, was spending a semester abroad and was charged with the murder of her roommate. The poor girl did not have a fair trial, eventually was acquitted and a bartender was finally convicted of the murder. But Perugia is a lovely place with cobbled streets, medieval ruins, beautiful piazzas and a vibrant nightlife. I can’t wait to visit the city again. Stumbled Upon… On our 2nd day in…
