Pano-palooza #3 – The Italian Job

We’re still working on our last few photo albums from Italy – our little medical emergency in Spain was an annoying detour that threw us off our game a bit – and we still have some final thoughts and impressions to share about the eight weeks we spent eating and drinking our way through bell’Italia. In the meantime, I thought I’d share the latest batch of panoramic photos I stitched together.

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España, Good On Ya

Now that our appendectomy adventure is over (I’m knocking on wood now because technically one of us still has an as-yet-ungangrenous appendix), we thought it was about time to write about the non-medical-emergency parts of our month-long tour of Spain, also known as the Country That Never Met a Part of the Pig It Didn’t Want to Eat. This is my first trip to Spain, and for all intents and purposes, it’s Dustin’s too. (He was here briefly a few years ago, but in what now appears to be a prophetic case of bad luck, he came down with the flu shortly after arriving and spent the entire time in his hotel room.)

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Nobody Expects the Spanish Appendectomy!

Updated on Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 1:26PM by Dustin Frazier

We interrupt this already irregularly scheduled program for an even more irregular update. As you might be able to guess from the title of this entry, I had the distinct “pleasure” of having my appendix removed while Laura and I were traveling in southern Spain. It was a painful, stressful, frustrating, confusing, and at times downright scary experience, especially given that we don’t speak a lick of Spanish. As it turns out, though, it was also one of the most real experiences we’ve had while traveling this year, and it reminded us a thing or two about the unpredictability of life and importance of going with the flow, about the benefits of having an amazing travel companion, and most importantly, about the universal kindness of strangers. It was quite the detour on our year-long adventure.

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Felicitaciones, Clara y Eric!

We’ve been offline a few weeks due to a medical emergency here in Spain (not to worry, everything is fine now… we’ll post a full report here later today), but we’re back online and wanted to say “Congratulations!” to our friends and fellow globetrotters Clara and Eric, who just got engaged on Sunday. Quite randomly, we’ve now had the good fortune of meeting up with them four times in the last couple of months (in Cinque Terre and on a farm stay in Dozza, Italy, and in Sevilla and Granada in Spain), and we’ve really enjoyed swapping travel stories and hearing about their amazing adventures.

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