Monthly Archives: October 2013

ROME [As a geography major, I know Rome is not located someplace where a 4,000-passenger cruise ship can drive right up to the front door.  Yup, it’s inland.  So we had to park the leviathan in Civitavecchia (don’t ask me … Continue reading →

[It was just one of those weekends.  We had become spoiled.  It seems that for as long as I can remember, we’ve always had beautiful weather for homecoming . . .] [As usual, the weekend started with the Hall of … Continue reading →

[We’re on the road again.  For the rest of the day our lives would be in the hands of our bus driver, Luigi.  🙂 We were headed for Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast.] [The supervisor will knock little old ladies … Continue reading →