Author: Ed Hovorka

I’m running out of disk space on my free hosting account, so I’m about to cough up some dough and upgrade to a paid account. That means the pictures won’t be affected by a daily download limit. But I don’t know how seamless the upgrade will be, so if everything disappears, I might not be able to fix it easily from here. There may be a week of silence.

Been in Italy for 3 days, had pizza 3 times. Fresh mozzerella cheese tastes really good on a pizza.

I’ll catch up on pictures tomorrow. We are taking a day off after two weeks on the go.

The trip consisted of a 10 minute shuttle bus from the hotel to the local train station. A 30-40 min train ride to Pompeii. A 1 mile (20 min) walk across Pompeii to a different train station. A 60-75 minute train ride to Paestum. A 10 minute walk to the site. It was also very hot, it was 29 (84) yesterday and felt hotter today. And the trains in Italy are not air conditioned. And look like they haven’t been cleaned in 50 years. I could not see out of the windows. I think they leave the windows dirty to help block the sun.

When we got off the train in Paestum, I told Denise, ‘you are hell and gone from Cartagena’, a quote from the movie ‘Romancing the Stone’. We had just traveled for over 2 hours and got off the train in some deserted location in southern Italy because we read about Greek ruins from 500 BC. It sometimes makes me think we are pushing our luck a little. But a 10 minute walk in the right direction gets you to a small site with 3 big Greek temples, among Roman ruins. The only really impressive stuff here are the Greek temples.