Two weeks left!
My flight to Rome leaves two weeks from today and the trip is starting to feel real. I've planned out the first three cities (Rome, Naples, Reggia Calabria) and I've got a list of potential successors. Today I started calling Roman hotels in order to make reservations for Moira's visit in March, which will accidentally (but probably niftily) coincide with Easter in Rome. I was surprised to find how natural the Italian language felt, but of course since I was talking to a Roman (they are famously bilingual) he switched to English almost immediately after hearing my accent. At the end of my last trip it was a great compliment to be able to keep a Roman speaking Italian for a full conversation, no matter how brief, and it looks like I have some work to do in order to bring my fluency back up to that point :)