Excerpts and links from my personal travel blog Go Darty Blog
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Mom bravely took her suitcase as we started up the thin trail. Lugging it like a deadweight, we stopped every few steps to catch our breath. Mom had recently informed me of the slightest heart flutter, and now I could hear her breathing heavily from several feet away. I told her to stop, convincing her that with my youth, I could take my backpack up to the top and return for her suitcase.
I took my backpack up to the top as quickly as I could. By that time, I thought my right lung had collapsed. But my mom was still on the mountainside. I turned around to see her halfway to me with her suitcase. I had to pretend to be disappointed that she had done it herself, but I know she could see the relief on my face as I wheezed and carried her suitcase for the last few steps.
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Climbing the Duomo wasn’t as simple as 463 steps; climbing the Duomo was 5 years of dreaming, one long year of planning, and many sacrifices made. But let me tell you…standing on top of the world, knowing that you have accomplished that which you set out to do – that which others said was crazy – is a feeling not everyone gets to experience.
It is a feeling I am grateful to know intimately.
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It has yachts that light up when the stars do. It has neighbors who call to each other through their windows while they hang out the laundry. It has children selling their mother’s homemade jam.
It does not have much to do, it has no internet, it forces you to let the hot stones warm your feet as the icy cold water rolls over your toes. It forces you to watch the little fish swim up curiously to you, not allowing you to have obligations or to-do lists.
As it turned out, Vis was paradise after all. It was simply in a different form than I expected.
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