Reminiscing - The Drive

So we get our car and realize it’s a stick! I have not driven stick in 20 year and panicked that they did not have an automatic. Luckily they did! 😍

On our drive to Barcis we may have found the military radio station. I forgot how hilarious commercials were.

We did a quick drive-by of my old house in Vajont on the way to the lake.
* Interesting (but sad facts) about the Vajont dam about 15-20 miles north of my home: One of the worst man-made environmental disasters of all time. When built in 1959 it was the tallest dam of its kind in the world. Late on the evening of 9 October 1963, a vast chunk of the mountainside, the size of a small town and 400m (1,312ft) deep, sheared off. The wall of water pushed an air pocket before it. It was more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. The dam survived but 80% of the inhabitants of Longarone and its satellite villages did not. In all, almost 2,000 people are known to have died. Just 30 of Longarone's children survived.

I totally forgot how much fun it is to drive through the small town roads in Italy! 🇮🇹 ❤️Read more