3/26

Yesterday I got extremely car sick while Tim drove up and down the mountains.  We are so glad we rented a car because I'm thinking the ride on a bus would have been so much worse.  Yesterday was a funny day - we took one wrong turn and had to pay a toll, turn around and pay it again.  Then Gab dropped and broke a jar of Nutella in a market near our apartment...two funny things I forgot to write about yesterday.

So, to avoid the car sickness today, I drove.  I will say, driving here is insane.  There are pretty much no rules and really, I know I've said the roads are windy, but that doesn't really begin to describe them - there are more twists and turns than I don't know, more than any roads I've ever seen!  But the good news is that I didn't get sick, I just squeezed the wheel while I drove and went from 2nd to 3rd gear over and over again.  I hadn't driven a stick shift in about 15+ years, so that made it even more exciting.  We checked out a couple of small towns - Maiori and another one we never figured out the name of.  Tim and Gabi just went to go find some wine to have with dinner and I'm supposed to be starting the pasta, but I can't figure out how to turn the stove on without burning down the apartment, so I'm blogging instead.  We stopped in a little bakery to get some bread and for 2.85 euros we bought 3 nice sized rolls and 3 calzones - lunch for tomorrow....you can't buy a calzone for less than 5 bucks at home!

We were going to do the Walk of the Gods today, but Tim turned the alarm off this morning and rolled over and went back to sleep.  I never even heard it.  I think we're finally over the jet lag, but today is the first day I can say that.  Tomorrow is Walk of the Gods for sure - there's a spot that has 1500 stairs - 1500!!  I'm not sure if we will be heading up or down a mountain at that spot but either way, 1500 stairs is a lot of stairs!  The whole thing is 5 or 6 miles...should be fun!