Harrisburg and The First of the Pennsylvania Signers
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
It was around 12:30 on Sunday, June 14, 2009, as my friend Bob and I departed Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in search of more famous and thrilling sites in this fine state. We had already dramatically altered our itinerary by spending quite a bit of time in Gettysburg. In fact by this point just two days into our travels, the itinerary basically went out the window because we decided to zip on over to Harrisburg and get the state capitol tour completed – an activity which hadn’t been scheduled until Friday. Obviously, our original route was a bit questionable. Read the rest of this entry »
Chris and I were up, ready, and on the move again come 8am, Friday morning, May 15, 2009. We walked from the Florence apartment to the train station to purchase our tickets and depart for the destination of the day: Venice, Italy. It departed around 9am and took about two and a half hours to get to this famous city located in the northern section of the country. The city itself needs very little introduction. Famous for its canals that flow through 118 islands connected by about 400 bridges, Venice is one of the most unique cities in the world. 
I had spent ample time the night before getting ready for my Summer 2009 California journey, having packed all of my clothes, assembled celebrity photos that I needed to bring along, and had all of my incidentals ready to go. However, on the morning of Saturday, July 11, I made an almost near-fatal faux pas which almost wrecked the whole thing. I had set my alarm for 4:20 am with plans to head to my Dad’s house at 5:00, leave his place by 5:30, and arrive at the airport by 6am for my 7am departure. It was all mapped out and it seemed like a bulletproof plan. 
I consider Pulp Fiction to be one of the true classics of modern cinema – so although I haven’t seen many films starring Amanda Plummer (daughter of Christopher Plummer), the fact that she starred in this one as Yolanda (aka Honey Bunny) was quite enough. If you are familiar with the film, you may recall the prologue in which a couple are poised to rob a diner and then returns in the epilogue to show how the robbery went. In essence, this extended scene is the glue which holds the film together as Amanda Plummer and Tim Roth both discuss and then act out the robbery. 
After having failed twice to meet acclaimed science fiction writer Ray Bradbury in 2007 (first in