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Today I am once again
featuring a few lines from From Italy
with Love & Limoncello. This is a true story--a travel memoir about four boomer
women embarking on an unguided tour of Italy. The girls have finally connected
in the Rome airport and are, at last, on their merry way by train to Florence.
We
had to laugh because our luggage was located just behind our seating area, and
each time the train rounded a slight curve in the track, all suitcases rolled
to one side of the train. At the next curve, they all rolled back to the other
side of the train. It just seemed comical to see our luggage traveling back and
forth. I was amazed that with a load of sixty-six pounds, mine could even roll
at all. Statistically speaking, it was heavier than the weight of the average
nine year old child!
All
was peaceful until the conductor arrived to see our tickets. Laura's ticket had
absolutely vanished. She frantically searched her handbag, her carry-on--even
her McDonald's bag. The ticket was nowhere to be found. Did she drop it when we
were juggling luggage? Calmly, Marianne left her seat to assist in the search.
The
conductor, very annoyed, said to Marianne, "YOU talk to her!"
Marianne looked through every possible nook and cranny. We reasoned that she
must have had her ticket when she boarded because she readily found the seat
number that matched her ticket. It had to be here somewhere!
Suddenly,
all was well once again as Laura reached into the pocket of the seat in front
of her, where she had placed the ticket for safe keeping. "This is what I
always do on Amtrak," she said.
It's
so easy to become disoriented with insufficient sleep and being deposited into
the center of a foreign land! Eventually, the conductor with the stern
expression returned to see if there was still an issue with Laura's ticket. He
grinned from ear to ear to learn that the elusive item had been located.
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Huge blessings for a fabulous
weekend!
Mary Anne
