Mike and I have spent the last week in Shakespeare country and no we weren’t in Britain. We camped between the Italian cities of Verona and Padua. For those that know their Shakespeare, you will recognize Verona as the setting for Romeo and Juliet and Padua as the setting for …

The last 4 ½ months since we left Italy have been a really bad time in our lives with multiple family members on both sides of our families dying. My mother, Mike and I were the only three in our family that had never had Covid. Mike and I picked …