Thanks Lara and Nick,
I appreciate the support and encouragement.

We are home now and exhausted but a happy kind of exhausted.

I think some of you may be able to relate to this.
I was very apprehensive about this trip for so many reasons,
longest plane trip ever, will I be able to be active enough to make it
worthwhile, can I make it through 10 days without having a health flare-up,
etc.

so....after the long flight, then we went out to dinner, I had one glass of wine
and I just started softly crying. It was not only pure exhaustion, it was the fact that I had worked so hard for this goal and finally made it. I was always so afraid I would never fulfill this life long dream of visiting Italy, where all my family and ancestors are from. Don't mean to be so self indulgent...but thought if nothing else you all would understand.

Take care, D