C.R. is visiting again from the States, and yesterday we decided to go on a post-dinner stroll. But what streets should we take? Ah yes…let’s go down Memory Lane. We wandered by all of our old haunts, including the apartment we lived in over the summer. We stood outside the window for a few minutes gazing lovingly at our windows, and paused by the window of The Ladies. The air seemed to warm into another hot summer night for just a few moments while we recounted details of the beginning. The road that led us where we are now…never straight, not always easy, but always forward and speckled with hope.

C.R. stays until the 18th and then we take a train to Rome, and she departs for the States. I will follow a day later, after somehow amusing myself in Rome for an evening. Back to the homeland, though thankfully, only for a short time. Then I come back to the boot, and prepare for Spring.