Farewell to Canada for now ...

Today is the day our new adventure begins! Thank you Lethbridge for kissing us good-bye with ribbons of red and yellow waving through the darkening skyline last night. I will miss the ever special sunsets we get to enjoy in our home here in Lethbridge ... but ... I am guessing, hoping, trusting that Italy will offer up a few of its own as we gaze westward out towards the seas from the Amalfi Coast and Cinque Terra!

I woke up this morning feeling a wee bit eager for our trip ... despite knowing that it will be a long, long, long day of planes, trains and automobiles before we arrive at our Airbnb tomorrow in Piano di Sorrento! We are spending three nights in the Sorrento area before our walking tour of the Amalfi Coast begins.

I still have to be the tour guide until October 2nd. And, today will be a very, very long one because it doesn't end until tomorrow! Our itinerary looks like this:
Leave home at 10:45am Sept 28th
Ride to the bus terminal in Lethbridge...thank you Sweetie! (15 minutes)
Flix Bus to downtown Calgary (3.25 hours)
Uber from downtown Calgary to YYC (30 minutes)
Flight from Calgary to Rome (9 hours and 55 minutes)
Shuttle from Rome airport to Rome Train station (32 minutes)
Rome train station to Naples train station (65 minutes)
Naples train station to Piano di Sorrento train station (63 minutes)
Piano di Sorrento train station to Airbnb (8 minute WALK)
Arrival at Airbnb ... @ 6:00pm (tomorrow!)
Since the pandemic, we have travelled with carry-on only ... but now ... we are checking one bag as well as taking our carry-on bags. It turns out that geriatric galivanting in the "golden years" now involves trekking poles, knee braces, tubs of medicated ointment for cranky knees that won't fit in the carry-on and pain killers for comfort! These things take up more space than I realized. So ... a checked bag it is. The extra suitcase complicates the ease of train hopping when you are rolling more than one bag, but I have faith in the old boy's "cougar reflexes" to manage the extra suitcase. Fingers crossed that it arrives in Rome when we do!

I decided to post this preamble to our trip because I don't expect to write again until we finally kick off our shoes tomorrow night at the Airbnb. I hope to catch up with you then on how all the connections went on our 'never-ending' day of commuting!

Looking forward to seeing you again then!
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