On Vacation

Just a note to let you know Rana and I have been traveling in Italy and France since September 17th. We spent our first week in Venice, Italy, where Rana attended an oceanographic conference. At the moment, we are visiting with an former colleague from graduate school days, Stanley Pons, in the Italian Maritime Alps. We are in a perched, very old, village (Corte) about an hour from the Mediteranean coast, and about two hours from Nice, France. (Our hosts also have dsl internet access and a WiFi network in their ancient, stone, summer home.) We expect to be home on October 2nd, and will be back to work by October 5th. Ciao!