I have returned from my 9 day journey. It was pretty awesome, and I have a ton of pictures. And I'm already behind from posting pictures, I will, I promise, get some posted sometime in July :). My italian has improved, at least my ability to understand it, after spending much time around the language on the trip. I'll let the pictures speak for the trip, once I get them posted. My words could not adequately capture the extreme diversity of things we saw and did on this trip - ok, i'll try because you are probably curious. Let's just say mountains and snow and lakes to hot sand dunes, and canyons of every type.