Viva Italia! May 20th 2007 Sorry this entry is so late getting up. I had to wait to get the pictures downloaded and then I went on a paper writing rampage and forgot about travelblog for a bit. But now I’m trying to think of every way possible to put of writing papers (only 30 pages to finish in 6 days!) and I remembered travelblog, so here you go. I wrote it on the 20 hour train voyage back home from Italy whilst in a ca ... read more
Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more
"Never think of the future, it comes soon enough."-Albert Einstien
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” -St. Augustine
Update Update: No longer a junior, still a traveller. Now I'm finishing up my senior year of school and looking to put off joining the real world for as long as possible. I made a promise to myself that I would travel before I got a salary. I'm planning on working through the summer to save up some money for a three month stint in South America. I'm thinking of doing some spanish school in Costa Rica, joining a camping tour in peru, and wwo... full info