So in the spirit of preparing for a
long period of travel and adventure, I’ve decided to share a handful of travel
stories from past trips afar… little tidbits that over time have come to impact
both how I travel and how I view the “art of exploration”, if you will. I’m sure a few themes will present themselves…
road trips, incredible strangers, phenomenal food, and doing things on a
whim. And perhaps they’ll be a bit
entertaining as well. Enjoy J
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It was after an international
ultimate frisbee tournament in Rimini, Italy, called Paganello, that I found
myself in a tiny (yet spacious) rental car with three other Americans and a
Brit, en route to the Amalfi Coast. Our
only rule of the trip: we can’t decide
where we’re going until we get in the car.
This trip would prove the basis for all future road trips, pretty much
in life.
After setting out from Siena one
evening, we knew we wanted to venture towards Pompeii, but we weren’t exactly
sure where to stay the night. Our
guidebooks indicated that Pompeii can be a bit… skeazy… at night. So, we wouldn’t stay there. Perhaps Naples? Same conclusion. We consulted our maps and spotted a “medium
sized dot” in between Naples and Pompeii.
Surely that would be okay!
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| A highway stop along the Amalfi Coast a bit further south from where this story took place, circa 2005. |
