For my 50th, my wife and daughter, an answer to a birthday wish, are planning a trip to Italy to visit my family roots and enjoy everything the act of traveling has to offer. To be honest, I have to credit part of the inspiration to Stanley Tucci and his Searching for Italy.
We, my wife and I, made a pact to always travel. We’re foodies too so it’s easy to fall in love with an excuse to taste and consume all the best a particular place has to offer. Travel = great food. What else do you need?
Ok, of course all the culture and story we could consume in the time we were there (Food, as it turns out is also a great way to learn about a place and hear it’s story). The architecture, art, fashion and story all, of course, through my academic lens in Geography. Where we were was always very important to me. Orienting
that place in relation to the countries nearby, to places that I knew, and the local orientation and topography