After landing in Dallas, Ralph almost walks to Albuquerque

Ralph was ready for the rain!

The House of Cervantes (not)

In which Ralph’s Spanish isn’t good enough for Korean street food

Cave paintings and broken Roman dishes

Gazelles on my pants

Prado and Porras

“I’ll have one of those”

Ouch!

Toledo-revenge of crooked streets

Ralph’s pants take a hit

Leaning Palms

Ralph fights the napkins (again)

Ralph confronts the McDonald's french fry tool

Ralph becomes the a/c unit troubleshooter

Ralph talks his way into the Picasso museum

Ralph gets his luggage unpacked in Security

A visit to La Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències

Ralph makes it to Sagunto on the second try

In which Ralph learns how NOT to get to Sagunto

Modern art and mercados

Train stations, shuttles, and airports

Pentecost services and eating “little mustaches”

Of smells and coke bottles …

Tackling the Uffizi Gallery

Gelato and Cathedrals

About sandwiches and social media

Venice to Florence (gondolas to sculpture)

Venice ignored the Pope (and got away with it)

My first Mass in Italian

Viking Cruise-”please leave now”

Venice in the rain—more water on my head than under my feet!

Split-“only available here so buy now”

Split-“only available here so buy now”

Corfu-embrace the paddle

No port and a 21 kilometer run

Napoli-Ralph Excursion2, wandering with purpose

Rome-marble fragments and dirt

Livorno-tacky port, a leaning tower