Siena to Bellagio, June 1994

In June of 1994 Susan and I went to Italy for the very first time. We had no inkling at the time, or even for some time afterward, that we would return again and again, spending increasingly more time in a land that, to us at any rate, came to typify the very best of Europe. After saying good bye to Dick and Dorothy in Siena -- the four of us had rented a small villa just north of Siena for two weeks -- they headed south to Rome by train and we headed north to Lake Como and Bellgaio by car.