“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face” – Ghandi, Shirley Temple or Mike Tyson. Not sure which. Probably Ghandi.
The plan started out innocently enough: Let’s go see Rome. I had been there in 2016 on work and after walking around I vowed: I must come back with the family! They must see this! And so I tossed a coin into the Trevi fountain because this is how you ask the travel gods to make these things happen.
This plan went on the back burner as we went to Germany and had some other really cool trips in between. (Not documented on this blog). But then scottscheapflights.com entered my life and everyday I got emails telling me of incredible deals to everywhere in the world. Singapore, Australia, Norway, Morocco, etc. But then it came: Portland to Italy. $461 round trip. How could I say no? Boom, we bought the tickets and why not let’s just bring everyone? Asked my mom and dad to come along and a 10 day trip of Italy was born. We bought our Rick Steve’s books, mapped out every trip, got some nice places to stay (we’ll see) and an innocent spring break trip (though a bit extravagant) was born.
But then we got ridiculous. And thought: Perhaps we could stay a bit longer. I work with people all over the world so perhaps just maybe it could. And then it did. So we decided to not come home the 29th of March. Now we’re coming home May 22nd. And what was an Italy trip, has expanded into this:
Plus a billion side trips. So now we’re 10 days out and yeah, most everything is in place. 3 months around central Europe. 4 weeks in Italia, 3 weeks in Barcelona, and a few weeks in between. Here goes.
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