Introduction When I was young, I had a diary-but as I recall the entries were short -of course over the years the diaries disappeared. Now, I wanted very much to keep accounts of my trips to Italy. This journal will attempt to bring thoughts together with some pretty interesting photos to document my adventures. Presently I have over 500 pages of text documents to organize here, so bear with me while I try to add a little at a time. The index on the next page will hopefully break the stories down by region (perhaps province by province). etc