Italy 2010 - Let The Journey Begin

After lots of planning, we are finally ready to go!

We depart US airspace for Italy on May 14th and arrive Rome about 9:00 on May 15th. We are really fired up about the trip, and hope not to kill each other by the time it is over.

I set up this site to keep everyone that might care about our trip updated on what we are doing each day.

We don't have a whole lot officially planned for this trip. We are staying in a very small village in Umbria called San Giovanni D'Asso, which someone told me means St. John The Ass. Seems appropriate for us. See the map below for more details.  If you saw the movie Gladiator, where Russell Crowe is walking through the fields of wheat to his home, that is where we are staying. At least that is what the brochures say. And you know they never lie.

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We are about 1.5 hours from Florence and 1 hour from Siena. We will definitely be going to both of these cities, as well as Pisa and some coastal towns. We will conclude our trip with three and a half days in Rome.

We intend to eat lots of great food, drink lots of wine, and hopefully not wind up in Italian jail.

Hope you follow along on our trip.