Tour

A week just to look around and listen. Of course it may have been the reaction of at last being free again, but I was having a great time. I certainly should not understand the city though. I was out of the army a week then and I really hadn't even thought about it. I may have been too disoriented or busy to pay it much mind would guess.

I went to the forum where I intended to meet another girl that I met. I liked Rome a great deal more than I did Athens. It was more beautiful. The buildings very old and monuments everywhere. I went to Saint Peter's Cathedral and it was something else. The streets are made of stone and the shop interiors were fairly modern. I loved everything I saw. It was great.

Not one of my plans had gone according to intention. Things were very relative. Who knew what would happen next. My tentative scheme was to ride my scooter to London, up the west coast of Italy, visit Florence, go along the coast to the Rivera and through France to Calais.

I did not take a lot of pictures on this trip and what I have is fairly useless. I had no concept of photography whatsoever. I may have included my camera with my tent and other stuff anyway that I sent to London, because I have no pictures from before I retrieved it. So I have to rely totally on memory with no hints gleaned from photographs. When I did take photos, it seems like it would be all on one day in some place or other. But in any case I did not want to walk around with a camera and a photographer's eye. I wanted no context whatever.

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