Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Our Amazing Race: Leg 1: Venice October 2009


Basilica San Marco. Situated in the heart of Venice, on the Piazza San Marco, the




There is no sewer system in Venice. Household waste flows into the canals and is flushed into the oceans with the tides 2 times a day.





Corey points out that if they lose this race, it will be due to the obscene tendency his partner has of stalking the endangered species of Venetial Locals.
Vanessa responds that if they lose the race, it will be due to Corey's tendency to want to eat.
It has been a month since we began our journey. I have a list of excuses for this time lapse in my report of our trip. Halloween costumes, church responsibilities, inordinate amounts of volunteer activity at the school. But what it comes down to is this. In my warped and demented mind, everytime I look at a photo of our trip, I am somehow let down by the vast chasm between the photo and the experience. The click clacking of heels on cobblestone streets, the blaring warmth of the sun after emerging from one of the
Our first leg of the race began with a flight originating in Spokane, stopping in Portland, flying over Greenland and Iceland with a brief layover in Amsterdam. The team:
Corey and Vanessa: Married 13 years
We were momentarily tempted by the breakfast left by our .(ok, I was tempted. But we knew that we needed to beat the throngs of 50,000 tourists that descend upon the city every day. We arrived in a virtually empty St. Marks Square and were among the first few hundred in line for the Palazzo Ducale. We were also the only ones that I noticed who had their camera bags confiscated.

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