We took a nice drive today from Vicenza to Sea Pines Lodge at Camp Darby near Pisa, Italy.  After the difficult experience with the brand new, onboard GPS in our Citroen, I decided to pull out the trusty portable GPS that I usually bring along on these trips.  I programmed my destination and suction cupped her in the windshield right next to the fancy original equipment model that had given me such a hard time the day before coming down through Austria.  Since I couldn’t figure out how to turn it off ( I smell a conspiracy here), I just left it on right next to old faithful.  Now I have two state-of-the-art computers and Jean sitting next to me with a detailed map of Italia on her lap.  We made it off of the base fairly uneventfully but at the first juncture, the two GPS’ started fussing with each other over which way we should go. It got pretty nasty between the two of them so we had to put them both in “time out” and go with the written word.  Bottom line, we got here a half an hour earlier than either GPS had predicted.

We made our way straight for the commissary for a couple of rib eyes and a bottle of wine.

Steaks are on.

Dinner is served.