A Roma!

I have been neglectful of the blog, and I can't blame it all on being busy, since somehow I found time to post last year when some of the same hectic things were going on.

Spring beckons, and much is happening. Foremost on my mind, my sister is getting married in the fall, and I get to be matron of honor! We also signed up for the Delvin Farms CSA. I'm in shape for a second half-marathon, with two more weeks of training to go.

At the end of May, DH and I are going to take a trip to Italy together, something I've been looking forward to for about 5 years. In 2004, as a graduation present from my parents, I spent 6 weeks in Rome studying the classical history of the city, taking side trips to Florence, Naples, and spots in between. It was a program recommended to me by my Classics professor as an undergrad, and after leaving school early to teach, I decided to apply.

When I got the call that I'd been accepted into the program, I was ecstatic. I had never left the country before, and my first trip abroad would be to the city I'd fallen in love with at age 14 in Latin class.

Last night, I got out all the odds and ends I saved from the trip. I found my travel diary, separate from the copious notes I took at each site we visited. Somehow I managed to make almost daily entries, in spite of the exhausting schedule and persistent jet lag. I often found time to write on the bus or train. I didn't want to leave out a single detail, partially out of guilt for leaving my boyfriend stranded in rural Georgia.

Tempus est nunc! I'm ready to go back to Italy.