Catching Up with Ed and Karen

Catching Up with Ed and Karen
We now live in California's Sonoma Valley, north of San Francisco Bay ...All around us are picturesque vineyards.
We've retired after serving United Methodist churches in Washington State, AND as Resident Minister for the inter-denominational Christian ministries in both the Yellowstone and Grand Canyon National Parks. [These vital ministries continue ...see http://www.acmnp.com/]

After living and traveling full-time in our 35-ft Motorhome RV for seven years, we "hung up the keys" and settled into a cozy cottage in Sonoma , California. Here we are easy distance from our kids and grand-kids.

Check out our Blog Archive (below, right) about our various "where's" and "what's."

Thanks for visiting!

Monday, July 21, 2014

 Ed in Europe - Part 8

 Next Stop: Rome !

Hans at the Tiber River Bridge in Rome
We traveled next to the "Eternal City" where we not only saw some sights, but got caught up in some actual gladiator training!  Again, this was a Challenge on our "Competitour."
You can see that I am so intent on catching that gladiator with my net,
that I've lost my blue hat!

We did have some time to see St. Peter's in Vatican City...

...throw a coin into a Roman Fountain...

...stop by the Pantheon... 
(For a perspective, that's Hans in the red shirt.  ...It is absolutely amazing the scale of the engineering that they did in the ancient world, w/ only hand labor.)
...AND, of course, the Coliseum...


Our next, and final stop on our Competitour is Venice...
Our Hotel in Venice is on the Left side of the canal, behind the man in the light blue shirt.

We'll be wrapping it up in the next Blog or two...

Check Back!

--Ed
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