Pope to Puglia 2023
7 more wake ups! We are taking the 1st of many trips of a lifetime. We have worked hard all our lives and now we are retired. COVID put a bit of a stall in our travel plans, but now is our time. Steve retired from sales 5+ years ago and I retired from teaching 2+ years ago. Our cottage on the lake is a wonderful retreat, but it is a long winter. Some days it feels like we are living the movie Ground Hog Day! We wake up and it’s always snowing. We thought we would find a place to go away in March. Can we make it to March? We can make it to March! This year has been unseasonably warm, so it’s been easy. Where should we go? Florida? We frequently travel with our friends, Jeff and Susie. Their daughter said, “You’re too young to just go to Florida. You should go to Greece or Italy.” Hmmm… maybe …Italy? Other friends went to Puglia several years ago to visit their nephew. He owns several trulli in Southern Italy. I had always kept their trip in the back of my mind. I checked out the weather...