Transitions!
Day 2 is about changes: city suburbs to countryside, level ground to hills, and our excitement about our Camino experience to oh-my-god-what-do-we-think-we-are-doing? We leave our first comfortable B&B at 7h00 sharp. The air is autumn cool, the breeze refreshing, the sky deep blue, and the traffic quite Monday-like as parents rush to work and bambinos are dropped off at school.
The ugliness of the Roman suburbs abruptly changes to a bucolic setting. Cows! What a relief to leave behind trash, traffic, and noise. A mid-morning cafelatte e cornetti further soothe our spirits.
Google-map deprived (no wifi), we guess at unmarked roads, miss turns, and add several kilometers to an already long day. Ouch! The caffeine wears off.
Monterotondo is well hidden in the curvy landscape with many ups and down obscuring the way. Grazing cows and sheep pay little attention to our mileage distress. When we do finally find “Round Mountain” by 2:00, no one speaks English or French–indeed “L’Italia Profunda!”–so we resort to the Marcel Marceau School of Pantomime and the kindness of many strangers to find our “Vacation Rental,” the “Supermacato,” and hot showers for achy legs, hips, knees, and feet (and many other parts). We definitely aren’t yesterday’s Denis & Judy. Yes, we’ve changed and reality has entered into the equation. Stay tuned!
Editor’s note: Judy says her version of today’s walk would have been shorter. Long, hot, tiring: the pits. 9/21/15
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