Cara Mia, Oh My!!!: Life can be a blur

The last two days have been kind of a blur...and not one caused by the several bottles of wine we have consumed.
Towns are beginning to look alike!
We went to Monteriggioni and Montepulcianoo and Montalcino and Castellina and Pisa and Lucca...and..... wow! I can't even remember!
Pisa is one of those must see towns in Italy. After all, the Leaning Tower is there. (Side note: If you don't want to go to Italy, go to Niles Illinois. They have a replica there. It used to be in front of the Leaning Tower YMCA but that was 100 years ago when I was a kid.)
Pisa is a great place to watch people.
People of all ages, races, creeds, nationalities...all coming to do one thing, achieve one goal. Is it global peace? NO. Controlling global climate change? NO. Answering the great debates of Cubs/Sox, Bears/Packers? NO!!!
They come to take pictures of them holding up the tower, or pushing down the tower. It's a matter of perspective. (No, I am not really holding up the tower in the picture below. Perspective. And my stomach is not really that large. Perspective.
Anyway, after spending some time at Pisa, watching people push over, hold up, or whatever to the most famous landmark in Italy, we motored on to Lucca.
Lucca is a walled city that dates back centuries. It has a 2.5 mile wall surrounding the old part of town. The wall is complete, so tourists can walk it or bike it.
So I rented a bike and rode the Lucca wall. I had expected it to be flat, but I did not expect it to be a four lane highway!! This baby is wide. Lots of shade trees, lots of parks, built on the footprints of long gone churches and forts, and lots of people out enjoying the day.
Lucca also holds a distinction of being one of the two towns in which I have not had a gelato. Or two.
Remember: Perspective is why my stomach is so big. Really.

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