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Italy is my Travel & Trail Tuesday
As a teen, I had the chance to travel with my extended family to Italy to visit our relatives for a month.
We spent time in Rome and Naples, and as a kid whose Mom was interested in history, we did all the major sightseeing.
Visiting the little town where most of my grandfather's family still lived was both incredibly eye-opening and boring. Very small, narrow streets that, if a car was coming, you stopped and pressed yourself against the wall of a building.
In fact, to me, the archways in the homes seemed bigger than the roadways.
Looking back now, after almost 50 years, I really appreciated the relaxed lifestyle everyone lived. The people we were around were all 70-90 years old and active.
Some of the images in my head of Pompeii can still bring a tear to my eye. The Colosseum was so impressive because, standing there, and after being in an NFL stadium, I was amazed at how they engineered this place.
Side note, we got an unofficial tour of a few places we weren't supposed to see often. Not sure who my uncle was connected with, but I saw parts of the Vatican were locked down and guarded.
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Italy is my Travel & Trail Tuesday
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