A fun day on the road today, we drove through the largest city in Tuscany, before driving south of the border into Mexico on our way further south to Bolivia to shop ironically in a Thieves Market. Along the way we took in a lecture about early guerrilla warfare from The Swamp Fox, asked for directions to the East Indies from a fellow named Christopher and we nearly robbed by a highwayman until we showed him the contents of my wallet and he let us pass.
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- Around the World 04 – Florence: Not Italy, South Carolina. (9/24/17)
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- Roadside Oddities 02 – South of the Border: We probably could have found 5 items here that we would need to fill the Category of Roadside Oddities, but that would be like shooting fish in a barrel, so we took one of the giant billboard to count as just one. (9/24/17)
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- Around the World 05 – Mexico: Ahhh, thank you, politically incorrect South of the Border. (9/24/17)
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- Around the World 06 – Bolivia: If Bolivia is the next right, this must be Brazil. (9/24/17)
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- Example of Irony – Thieves Market: Is this a market for thieves to sell their stolen goods or a market where you go shopping to find a thief to steal something for you? (9/24/17)
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- Heroes and Villains 04 – Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox was a Revolutionary War hero and is considered the father of modern guerrilla warfare. (9/24/17)
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- Heroes and Villains 05 – Christopher Columbus: Christopher Columbus was a hero to the Catholic Monarchs of Spain in spite of never making it to the East Indies as he first proposed and it turned out he was a villain to native Americans although they didn’t really know it at the time. (9/24/17)
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- Heroes and Villains 03 – Robin Hood: A hero to the poor and a villain to the Sheriff of Nottingham. (9/24/17)
