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« Wait, you’re walking all the way to Rome?! » « Do you really wear those clothes all the time? » « Are you sleeping outside? Where do you stay? « That cell phone isn’t very historically accurate… » Many people ask us questions like these, and I think they’re entirely reasonable. Therefore this post is not about accommodations as in lodging,…

Esther and I have now been in Italy for a week, and have been equally challenged, immersed, and delighted by Italian culture. The vast majority of Italians we have met have been warm, kind, and helpful hosts to us as foreigners, despite our limited vocabulary! My goal in writing this is to humorously point out…

« We wanted to lose weight (normal people go to the gym, we carry heavy historical gear and go climb up mountains…) » « Everybody in Boston/Massachusetts/New England/USA dresses like this. » [And if the person hasn’t been, who’s to say otherwise?] « We dressed like Savoyard peasants to not look like Americans (because we hate Trump). [Akin to liberal…