Photo from Hawaii or encounter map?

Another good one, just add grid

Ah, yes, my reminder that I, too, live on a volcano.

...well, two volcanoes.

lol

at least ours haven't been as active

Yeah, we're at the oldest deadest end of the active chain.

@BESW Huzzah for being old and dead?

Eh, volcanoes never say die.

yeah

hence why I used the word "active"

Volcanologists often do the "What you've got here is a volcano that's mostly dead" routine.

@BESW So what your saying is, I can cause volcanic eruptions by launching chocolate into a volcano?

Volcanology is the study of mobility devices for small woodland rodents.

Or is that volecane-ology?

@GreySage Well, Tom Hanks taught us that volcanoes are sensitive to self-actualization.

lol

@GreySage Tofu. You need tofu.

@Yuuki Suggest you take a gander at my avatar; I am fully aware of how the state/local/fed deal works in Texas. It's (at times) great entertainment, and at other times worthy of chewing on nails ...

@SPavel Naah, you can't get good TexMex in Alaska. :p

@KorvinStarmast To be fair, you can't get good texmex in certain parts of Texas either.

Yuuki Yeah, that's true.

As Mexican style cuisine goes, I prefer New Mexico style. (My Texas friends consider me a pariah for even entertaining such thoughts ...)

@BESW Vesuvius was my neighbor for a few years ... is there a lullaby one can sing to a volcano?

@KorvinStarmast I don't know, but you should probably avoid "Let It Go".

@KorvinStarmast ...so, you used to live near Neaples?

[Jimmy Buffet has a better volcano song](jimmy buffett volcano) ...

@Zachiel Yeah, Bella Napoli was my stomping grounds for a few years.

@Yuuki Ice song near a volcano: worst idea ever!

@KorvinStarmast Who would have tought

I've been searching for that style of pizza with little success since then. There's a place in San Antonio called Dough that does it .. one in Dallas also.

Earning the "la Pizza Vera" certification is no trivial matter.

@KorvinStarmast One of my friends recently went to a Neapolitan pizzeria in London. "Best pizza ever, but I must admit I've never been in Neaples".

It's a different Italian experience than Tuscany, that's for sure.

Anyway, I've been at a pizzeria in Piazza Plebiscito and I've never found, here in Northern Italy, anything similar.

Bread's better, pizza is better, and if you like spaghetti vongole you can't beat Naples.

The red wine further north is superior, and I prefer the Orvieto whites to Naples whites.

I like spaghetti alla bolognese much more. Not bolonnaise sauce as it is understood in the USA, mind you. More like minced meat cooked with tomato sauce, celery, onion, carrot and maybe some bell pepper or rosemary added to the mix.

@Zach Are you up near Milano or on the other side? Yeah, my wife prefers that style of Bolognese.

I'm in the North-East.

OK, I spent a few weeks in Vicenza when I was doing military stuff; got to do touristy stuff in Venice, of course, and love the wine from Udine area.

I hope you tasted... wait, I need to translate sarde in saòr.

local sardines as an appetizer? Yeah, allice .. gah, need to look up the spelling ...

2 parts onions, 1 part sardines and vinegar to taste.

It's, like, the only thing with vinegar that I actually like.

alici... yeah, that sounds familiar, but I suspect the way we had it down south was different from how they do it up north.

Trieste was a great port visit, the three times I went there in the 80's. That's another somewhat different Italian experience.

All memories of that are glossed over with a slight alcoholic haze, I think ...

My stay in Trieste was during a Boy Scout camp, so I didn't get much of the local cuisine or sightseeing. Except for Miramare's castle that we passingly saw after getting lost in the woods.

Lovely spot, that. I remember my kids love the castle in Assisi; the stone was sort of pink. When we later played D&D I used that as a connecting point to something they'd seen IRL.

About Boy Scouts getting lost in the woods: the one who knew the path had to carry a girl to the infirmary after she stomped on a sea urchin and the other guy turned left at the wrong crossroads. No Boy Scouts trying to read maps were involeved.

Ouch! Stepping on sea urchin. Not something to do twice.

Anyway, I got to go. Bye!

ciao

Now, here's a character concept: "Swashbuckling Violinist."

Too mundane, I'd be more interested in a swashbuckling violin

But if we're limited to the scope of real life, then yes, de St George was indeed an impressive dude

He'd make good inspiration for a Three Rocketeers character, I think.

@DavidCoffron Two of us are Arctic polar ice extent researchers, the other two study the ionosphere from the South Pole. It's just how our cots are arranged =)