My sojourn in Italy has been full of lazy mornings of sipping coffee and afternoons of grocery shopping and along the way there have been some adventures and misadventures.
The GPS in this car has been a nightmare from the beginning and so it continues. Last week when I went to Molise I swear we were routed through a vineyard. This time Joel and I found ourselves in two really bad jams with the directions. One mistake was as we were cruising along he pointed a particularly pretty village set high up,on a mountain to the right and just beyond that I noticed an old red Volkswagon bug. Said, “you don’t see many of them any more”. Thirty minutes later Joel says I think we’re going in a ⭕️ that village looks familiar. Naturally I said, “oh so many of them look alike”. And then 10 feet down the road I spied the red VW. Oh for God’s sake, we hate this British bitch. 
As if that incident were not bad enough, we also found ourselves being routed or re-routed over some tractor trail. It was full of ruts, holes, mud, puddles, rocks and often severely lopsided. Of course that was ridiculous. What kind of directionS take you through someone’s farmland? I’ll tell you what kind, the stupid kind.
The trip from Guardia to Molise is approximately 58 minutes, it took us about 2 hours. Here’s one of the reasons why:
To be continued…
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OMG! You are adventurous!!! Great to see Joel with you!
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” …
Helen Keller
Reminds me of getting lost on a high dirt road in Ireland with Heather looking for my mom’s lighthouse…….almost going in the Atlantic Ocean! Savor the last days of your discovering your roots.