Six weeks and counting

The plans are continuing to unfold. This week, we confirmed our van rental for when we're in Tuscany, and made arrangements for a hotel on our last night. We're going to stay in Ostia Antica, right outside of Rome, on the seashore. It's near the airport and very pretty; we should be staying in a dump so we'll actually want to leave. I guess we will be ready to be home by then.

We are encouraging the group to make their personal top ten list of things to do in Rome so we can make a plan. So far, we know that we're going to the Borghese Gallery one day. My (JoAnne) personal top ten includes St. Peters and the Vatican at least once, but everything else is negotiable because I want to do everything!