San Gimignano is known for its towers.  My cursory read of its Wikipedia page suggests that two rival families started building towers, which led to more towers, which led to more towers, until someone stepped in and was all like “Fratelli, enough with the towers, okay?” Note- I’m pretty sure I kept taking pics of […]

First and foremost, I’d like to thank my sister for bugging me while I’m trying to remember all the cool things I did today.  So, thanks, Tracy. So!  Today we spent WINEding around Chianti!  Get it!?!  Because the roads are all curvy and they ferment grapes!!  Whew, Sutton’s on a roll.  Point being, we drove […]

You guys.  I’m a day late, because apparently hanging out in Tuscany is cooler than just writing about hanging out in Tuscany.  So there we go. Did I mention we rented a car?  We did.  That’s given us the flexibility to just kinda do whatevertf we feel like doing, which has been awesome.  Anyhow, what’s […]

Siena!  I didn’t take a lot of photos of the cool narrow streets and old buildings, since I was mostly too busy taking pictures of cool churches and store signs to purposely misinterpret.  But Siena has a lot of narrow streets and old buildings. Today was mostly just walking around, checking out churches.  The Duomo […]

You guys!  I’m on vacation, which means spending my much needed time away from a computer in front of a computer!  But instead of reading or playing solitaire or whatever it is that I claim to do, I’m writing captions for photos! So!  What’s the deal with this trip?  Becca and I are going to […]