We are actually Abroad Finally.

It's kind of crazy to think that 6 days have past and we have literally countless more to go before our 9 months is up. We are in Abruzzo Italy with our friend David who works in the National Nuclear Physics lab in L'aquila, Italy. Our Italian is coming along nicely as we spent the weekend in Bologna at the beach with 12 guys and girls from David's basketball team while living in a camper.

We visited David's family to get the camper and was priveleged to taste grapes from his garden as well as FIGS, which besides the minor allergic reaction I had to them, are my new favorite fruit. The grades tasted like something between champagne grapes and basil; two of my favorite things.

Besides being able to do laundry last night, the highlight of the day was stopping at a rocky secluded beach and were able to see the sunset while swimming in a perfectly blue ocean.

We are getting into the groove of traveling and have found that if we want to make it work, we are going to have to spend less that 15 dollars a day for our entire trip in Europe. That sounds difficult but between getting free accomadation through WWOOF and couch surfing I really believe it is possible.

Our Italian is coming along quickly, and we are almost able to be conversational...but severely limited to the present tense.

We leave on Wednesday to go to our first WWOOF farm, L'aperegina. We will check in soon with how difficult manual labor REALLY is. The gist of our future plans are as follows:

Italy, Naples Oct 1-->15th
Spain Oct 15th-->Nov 1
Egypt (to see Jess) Nov 1-->Nov 15th
Botswana and South Africa Nov 16th-->January 1st...

Then who knows!

Well, ci vediamo presto, CIAO!
Namita