Bon Voyage

After a week of moving, cleaning up the old house, getting our affairs in order, cleaning up the Point Loma house (thanks for letting us crash!) and packing, we are all ready to go.

So here is our final temporary itinerary:

• We leave San Diego tomorrow (Wednesday morning)
• August 12-15: New Braunfels, Texas where we will visit Shelley and Tara, spend a day at Schlitterbahn, and go on the SkyCoaster. Currently expected to be 105 degrees F with approximately the same humidity percentage.
• August 15-18: Boston, Mass to visit friends and go to places we miss from college (these include Moogy's, Roggie Happy Hour, Crossroads, and Oiishi. You can probably guess who picked what.
• August 19-22: Dublin, Ireland. We land at 5:30 a.m. If anybody knows of any early morning breakfast places that provide cots, it might be necessary. Spang will be joining us.
• August 22-25: München (Munich), Germany. We couldn't stomach paying for a few nights of Oktoberfest lodging so we decided to go before Italy and at least see it. Last time I was there I decided it seemed like a good place to be in the summer when the weather was warmer for biking around the city to the open outdoor beer gardens.
• August 25-30: Some combination of Bolzano, Verona, and Milan, Italy. We are still deciding how many nights to stay in each place and looking for accommodation. It is opera season in Verona so all the hotels are either booked or expensive. Any suggestions are welcome.
• August 30-September 1: Varenna, Lake Como, Italy. Apparently famous people live here. I just want to see it because it is in my favorite movie of all time: Oceans 12.
• September 1-4: Venice. Trying to see it before it sinks. It will also be the International Film Festival and the Bienniale Art Festival. Hopefully they are showing something artsy with subtitles.
• September 4-17: Anywhere we want. We have an apartment rented in Rome on the 17th, but nothing scheduled in between. We will definitely be going to Florence and Siena, but most everything else is up in the air. Bologna is likely. Pisa is a day trip. Lucca? Cinque Terre? Asisi? Perugia? Any suggestions either for overnight stays or day trips are welcomed.
• September 17-24: Rome. We have an apartment in Trastevere. We wanted to get a little bit more into the lifestyle.
  

After that, it's wide open. Right now we are tentatively planning to go to Paris, potentially with stops in Nice, Avignon, and wherever else along the way. But we might also go to Spain and get back to Paris later. Since the plans after Rome aren't solid, if anybody is going to be anywhere close, we can make a redirection. We like each other, but it might get lonely out there just the two of us for 3 months.

Finally, we will be updating our google map as we go along. You can see the big one below, but we will also post a more detailed view of some of the places we go.


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