Our first stop in Italy was in Genoa, in the region of Liguria. Earlier this summer, we had been considering the Ligurian coast as a possible place to call home, but since then, we decided that we were more interested in mountains than beaches. We left a few days in Genoa on the itinerary, though, just for sightseeing and to give us a chance to recover from the jet lag before we started language school.
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Crater Lake National Park
This was my third and Cheryl's second visit to Oregon's Crater Lake National Park. I had been there in 1986 on my six-week trip after taking the bar exam, and had been amazed by the intense blue color of the lake. So before Cheryl, our son Ethan and I went…
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