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The day after our arrival, we joined the program for a field trip to Assisi and Perugia, just about 1 ½ hour bus ride from Cortona.
Assisi is a medieval town and the burial place for St. Francis. Its main site is the Basilica di San Francisco, which is quite impressive. Like many other buildings in [...]

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It took three modes of transportation, but we made it.
We flew from Atlanta to Rome (9h15m) – no delays; and we met Ashley at the airport train station, where we took a short 30 min ride to the Roma Termini (central station). We were supposed to take a train to Camucia, a small town [...]

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Hi folks! We’ve made it, and we have been pretty busy. Cortona is wonderful and we already took a filed trip to Assisi and Perugia, and of course, we have a ton of photos. I will post a more detailed account of the last few days and post the best photos in [...]

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Sorry folks, but I have been too busy to keep up with the posts. Between making sure all my current work projects get done, getting trained on the “new at&t” processes, and getting ready for the our trip, I’m feeling pretty exhausted at the moment. I’m very fortunate and thankful for Gerald and [...]

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Ashley has made it to Rome – which apparently is both a magnificent and chaotic city.
If I remember correctly, she visited the Vatican and its gardens on their first day.
Yesterday, she spent the entire day walking around the Greater Rome — from the Ancient Rome area, where they visited the Roman Forum [...]

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We were able to reach our lovely Ashley again yesterday, and the program seems to be traveling at a pretty good pace. While in the Naples vicinity, they visited the coastal town of Sorrento — which according to Ashley, it is much nicer then Naples itself. From what I’ve seen online, it is indeed a [...]

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It was a very long traveling day, but “the Professor” has made it to Naples. As I mentioned earlier, the students and faculty were trying to gather in Rome, before they all headed to Naples. Unfortunately, about 40 students who were making connections through Milan lost their luggage. Ouch! So they were quite late checking-in [...]

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Ashley left for Naples yesterday, and I’m glad to have already received an email from her saying that she “had finally made it to Rome”. Apparently someone from a family of 11 fell and broke an arm, and the plane was held for a 1 1/2 hrs, while they retrieve their luggage… According to her [...]

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Yes. June is finally here, and I cannot begin to tell you how excited we are about this summer.
As most of you know, Ashley will be teaching Landscape Architecture in Cortona - Italy, as part of the University Of Georgia Studies Abroad Program. It has been almost two years in the making, and a lot [...]

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