(updated May 2008)

In January 1999, my girlfriend and I saw a $399 round-trip airfare to Rome advertised on the internet. The deal was offered for late March. We had both wanted to return to Italy for quite a long time. Finally, as an old Nike ad said, Just do it!, we did. Since then, weve been back more than ten times, have re-visited other countries, and plan to return to Italy again and again.

On each trip we study a different aspect of ancient, medieval or renaissance history, or religious art. We do our own planning, and ... (more)