The Top Travel Destinations with Kevin Flanagan
Sep 2, 2026 · 12 min · 8 segments
Rome has always held a special place in Kevin’s heart — that is before he had to attend the funeral of one of his best friends the morning of his next visit. Will the grief at losing a friend change…
But nothing prepared me for actually walking into St. Peter's Basilica with Paul for the first time and looking up at the dome.
It was simply too much and I started to career around in a sort of a psychedelic state going, it's all too much, it's all too much.
Michelangelo had somehow taken stone and architecture and created something that seemed to reach beyond this physical world.
And standing beneath Michelangelo's dome, I thought I understood something about beauty, perhaps even something about God.
But nothing prepared me for actually walking into St. Peter's Basilica with Paul for the first time and looking up at the dome.
It was simply too much and I started to career around in a sort of a psychedelic state going, it's all too much, it's all too much.
Michelangelo had somehow taken stone and architecture and created something that seemed to reach beyond this physical world.
And standing beneath Michelangelo's dome, I thought I understood something about beauty, perhaps even something about God.
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