Getting lost, or at least wandering off the main path, is a good way to experience more of Italy. It can be a bit challenging, like the first time Cheri and I arrived in Venice. While searching for the hotel we managed to lose each other. Mark Twain wrote about one night getting lost in Florence while trying to make his way back to his hotel. After about four hours of wandering he enlisted the aid of a young soldier to help him find "Hotel d'Europe." Twain wrote, "We walked a hundred or a hundred and fifty miles, it appeared to me, and then he got lost." This morning's walk to Rivotorto involved strolling through the Umbrian countryside with a general sense of direction, but no specific itinerary. With Monte Subasio and Assisi as background, one could hardly really get lost. Interesting old farms, along with the sounds and blossoms of a Spring morning, made the walk as good as reaching the destination.
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