Sunrise, Monday morning,

.................March 14, 2006**
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That would be from the window of our Boeing 767 at 12,000 feet elevation.
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Next, a little later we would see the Alps of Italy, France, and Switzerland from that same window.

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Mrs. Jim and I were off for a five week vacation in Europe. We would spend two weeks in Sicily, Italy, on a land tour with the Grand Circle Travel Company.

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Next would come another week on the Amalfi Coast of Italy, across the bay from Naples. Our hotel was to be in the coastal town of Sorrento.

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For the two weeks after that, we had a rental car reserved in Milan, Italy. From there we would wind our way up to the area of Provence, France. Specifically we would spend four nights in St. Remy.

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From St. Remy we were meander back down to Italy, where in Tuscony we would have a nice apartment in a Tuscan villa.

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Don't you just love it! We did.

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This is the last sight I can remember seeing from the plane window. It is the Polaramo, Italy, airport, nestled against those 'loafy' little mountains.

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What is Mrs. Jim doing here?

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Find out in the next blog about our trip, that will be next Friday or earlier.

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**I hadn't reset the clock in my camera. It was seven hours earlier than my camera clock. That made a few of this first picture showing the wrong date.