I know you haven't heard from me in a very long time. My last foreign trip was June 2011. I started to get that familiar ache to put on my 'traveling shoes' and knew this would be a solo trip. I leave tomorrow morning for Rome, Italy. It will be my first time there. I know, I know it is hard to believe given some of the backwater villages I have visited that I have never been to London, Paris, or Rome. It was part of a plan, well sort of a plan, to leave those highly touristy sites to my 'old age' when it was getting harder to do those backwater villages. This time I am going solo- no tour group, no Val, just me, some pages torn out of several guide books, some reservations
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