Welcome back to TBA live posts! This feels so good to get back in the Saddle and with over 6000 new images and countless new stories I am thrilled to share with all of you.

I urge you all to click the images below and see them in full resolution. Juliet and I worked like starving artists (we are) to capture the photos along this journey.

Stay tuned for big new changes to the TBA site and I look forward to all your comments and my still very jet-lagged responses.

The first Venice light

of the day spotted a

strange cameraman

waiting to work

along the canals once plied

by men of vigor

Italians posing is

much more wanted than is an

invasion of privacy

cruise ship lovers will

pay any price for the company of

talented douchebags

little johnny boat

trolling the back canals and

offering candy

along our paddle

we saw the sunken dreams

of a man in pain

Mike's memory was

never far even in the back alleys

of Venetian barscolorful houses

could not hide the colorless

souls of their owners