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Bill versus the volcano: Reviews

Bill-on-the-Hill — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:27:40 -0700

So with the trip done, here are a few capsule reviews of some of the outfits we dealt with. The meaning of the letter grades is:

Bill versus the volcano (VII)

Bill-on-the-Hill — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:43:31 -0700

This was the day when, by way of our choice of excursions, we surely convinced our British traveling companions, D and Z, that Americans, or at least the ones from small towns in the Southwest, are a little ... odd. Well, we probably are, but there's a reason for what we did. Read on ...

Bill versus the volcano (VI)

Bill-on-the-Hill — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:15:22 -0700

Well, if you can't climb the mountain, circumnavigate it. That was the plan for today, and it produced a considerably more laid-back day that included the kind of feast that most tourists come to Italy for -- most who are a little more sane than we are, anyway. But what's a cactus plantation doing there?...

Bill versus the volcano (V)

Bill-on-the-Hill — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:46:12 -0700

If you've waded through the previous days of this, you may be wondering, "So if the whole idea of this outing was to see volcanoes, why call the thread Bill versus the volcano? Seems contrary to the goal." Well, laying aside a certain movie reference, there's a reason, and today's events will begin to explain what it is.

Bill versus the volcano (IV)

Bill-on-the-Hill — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:51:49 -0700

Fourth day of the trip, and time to start doing what we came for, namely hiking into some weird places -- like, say, the crater of an active volcano.