We’re deeply involved in our respective packing rituals here. I’ve got tidy piles of color coordinated leggings and shirts, waiting to be rolled into my packing cubes, along with outlet converters, our passports, and a huge stack of pre-booked site entry tickets. Similarly, Ron is getting prepared by watching March Madness and some golf. We’re […]
Leaving my heart – and my camera – in Italy
We’re leaving Calabria and headed home. We had a nice farewell chat with our guide, Luca. He’s from Calabria and he deeply loves his home region. His summary helped me process and focus on a few things we saw on the trip. He says that Puglia – the first region we toured – was “discovered” […]
My never-expanding palate in the far south of Italy
We’re wrapping up our Road Scholar tour down in Catanzaro. We’ve got one more day and then I’m back in charge, shepherding us home via a complicated route that seemed like a great idea back in November. The benefit of the tour is definitely all of the fun stops we get to make. We took […]
Learning as I go: old books and deodorant
We have left Matera and headed to Calabria for the final leg of our trip. Before we left Matera, though, we took at quick trip down into the massive cistern that sits on Matera’s main square. It dates from the 1500s and was forgotten over time. It was completely abandoned by 1920 and then not […]
