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Since I was already in the neighborhood, I figured… why not do a little Lake Garda road trip? Easy, right? I came down from Belluno, hopped on a train to Verona, and picked up my rental car. Since it was my first time driving in Italy, I specifically asked for something tiny. Naturally, with my luck, they upgraded me to a Renegade Jeep. A small  Jeep I guess, kind of in the same way a baby elephant is “small.” Still bigger than anything I wanted to be navigating through medi

I’ve been hiking since I was a kid, we didn’t call it hiking back there, we called it “subir el cerro” (climb the hill), We used to vanish into the backcountry like it was Narnia, just snacks and sibling squabbles, Sometimes we’d tag along on my dad’s fishing expeditions (read: us fighting with wood sticks while he tried to catch dinner), or we’ll go alone pretending to be explorers. We would do day trips, or camp. Sleeping on tents (that may or may not have been waterproof)

The main purpose of the trip to London was to go to Wimbledon so we did not have time for much sightseeing; however, we managed to sneak in a few of London’s greatest hits. Let’s start with where we stayed. We chose an AirBnB in the Hackney area, in Broadway Market Street. Now, the flat itself? Let’s just say it had personality . The layout was... creative. But hey, it had enough beds, bathrooms and a roof so we called it home. The neighborhood, though, was a total win. Broad

Before I decided to take a sabbatical, I was plotting an Italian escape—think pasta, gelato, and subpar attempts at speaking Italian. But...