Rome

"Rome was not built in a day."
Li Proverbe au Vilain (ca. 1190).

"When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

"All roads lead to Rome."
Alaine de Lille in Liber Parabolarum (1175)

"Why not?"
Orange Clove Head (2012)

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So I am sitting here listening to Ludovico Einaudi again. This time it's a different album. Il Giorni, The Days.  This music is so grown up and introspective.  So unlike me.  As you know I am all about the lack of introspection.  I am very pro denial.  And game playing.  I’m all about the game playing, especially with myself.  You should know this. You’ve had to read similar pre-planning, whiney, initial posts about trips to Paris and Barcelona:

"Oh, I want to go to Europe."

"Oh, I can’t afford it."

"Oh, I need a vacation so bad."

Wait a minute. I don’t need a vacation bad at all right now. I love my new job, my new boss, and my new team.  Have I been replaced by some Pod Clove Head?




Maybe.  Any maybe in 9 or 10 months I will be psycho and need to get the hell out of here for a vacation. I certainly will if Mitt Romney is to guide us. I...I can't even consider it.

Anyway, I just love the months of buildup for an international trip – reading guide books, researching restaurants and food, drinking wine from there before you go, listening to local radio stations online, pretending I will lose weight and buy better clothes….and so on.

I think I am going to Rome.

Roma.

Italia.

I’m telling you right now that there is no way in hell I am renting a car.

I want to go next May.  May 1st through May 10th, or as they say over there, 1 May 2013 through 10 May 2013, give or take a night. May is maggio.  I want to go in maggio. 

I know what you are asking right now.  What about Amanda Knox?  Well, she is free and home so I guess their messed up judicial system works in the end. It is awfully tempting to keep a pox on all of Italy for the rest of time, but I am going to let this go.  Am I am bad person?  Of course I am.

OK, next comes how to pay for this.

Nah, I'll deal with that later.

For now I just want to buy guide books and plan, for Rome!



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