Journey to Italy

Kristin and I arrived safely home from Italy last night after 24 hours of traveling. I was so absorbed with traveling details and enjoying Italy that I had no time for a travel blog. So I am blogging each day over the next week to chronologically share my travels with friends and family. Consider this day one...our travel day to Italy.

The one word that would most aptly describe my travel attitude would be 'enthusiasm'. I was so excited about going to Italy that I couldn't sleep the night before our flight out of Columbus. After hours of lying awake with a big "I'm-going-to-Italy" grin on my face I decided to get out of bed at 2 am and begin packing (I'm a last minute packer!).

We transferred in Philadelphia and boarded the biggest plane on which I have ever travelled. We were bound for Rome and I had visions of Roman ruins racing through my mind. Kristin recommended that I sleep on the plane so that when we landed on Friday morning I would be ready for a day of exploring. But once again I was so excited that I stayed awake the whole way to Rome watching movies, listening to music and reading The Economist. Eight o'clock AM Rome time we landed at the Aeroporti di Roma. Amazingly our journey to Rome was not over. We gathered our luggage and managed to figure out how to board the Leonardo Express train bound for the main train terminal in Rome (Roma Termini).

Thirty minutes later we stepped foot off the train into the hectic Termini with luggage, back pack and map in hand and that wonderful crusty, sleep-deprived travel film over our eyes.