Childhood Montage

Cheerios, Lice Checks, Ice Cream Socials & Passports: A Retrospective

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February 20th 2008
The biggest trip of my 26.75-year-old life thus far took place in 1999. Unfortunately for me, that pre-dated: -Affordable digital cameras -Customized travel soundtracks on IPODs -Blogging for mass consumption -Being introduced to tweezers, which means I'm ecstatic to retake my passport photo in 2009 Because I am already recollecting the highlights and lowlights of a trip taken a decade ag ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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