Awesome is not a word I use often because I feel it is a bit retro, a bit overused and a bit trite.  There is only one case where I think it is called for and it is when talking about a place called Italy.  Then I’d pull out all the stops and use the cheesiest language, because the place goes beyond the word awesome.

Also a word on these photos appearing now.  Yes I went to Italy in September and it is now March and I keep cranking these things out.  Well, there are three reasons.  Reason number one is that this computer occasionally makes a fist and punches me in the face because there are too many photos on the hard drive.  I took about 1500 photos of Italy, I’d estimate.  Reason number two was that my internet coverage in Italy, I recall was the opposite of awesome, so there wasn’t tons of time to upload photos.  Reason number three is that I can’t figure out what to do with these photos for a while and by that I mean how much industrial light and magic to really use on them, so they sit and sit and sit until I have some kind of lightening bolt.  Or I am stuck on a bus somewhere with nothing to do.  Which ever comes first.

Enough chatter.  Let’s begin our wandering: