Canada Born-Alaska Grown-On The Road

 President's Day Long weekend presented itself with our first real opportunity to travel! We checked out our new best friend SkyScanner to see if there were any of those ultra amazing €25 tickets to literally anywhere. There weren't so instead we ventured north via train to Parma Italy in the Emilia Romagna region.      If your family is anything like our families, you're regularly on the look out for Parm prosciutto at Costco. This is a go to addition to even the most basic charcuterie boards, awesome elevation to asparagus sides, and in the Snider house, a wonderful dinner when paired with some crackers and cheese! This delight comes from the city of Parma! Since Parma is also associated with the famous parmigiano reggiano and balsamic vinegar it seemed like an easy way to spend a four day weekend: basically just eating:) Trains make for good blogging! With the amount of expenses the Navy expects us to carry before reimbursement we've been really kicking ourselves ...

In Sorrento with Vesuvius across the Bay of Naples  When you find out, and subsequently tell people, "we are moving to Italy" there is a very specific visual that is conjured. Some combination of wine in hand, Mediterranean breeze in the hair, pizza on a plate, and wild, yet romantic, hand gestures while fluently speaking Italian. In our American bubble that is Navy Support Site Naples those images have not come to fruition. Liz, being my consistent cheerleader, kept reminding me that we would be "In Italy doing Italy things" in no time. We recently got our NATO International Driver's Licenses and an Italian social security number called a "codice fiscale" which means we can legally buy a car. While we begin that process we took advantage of some public transit and an adventurous weekend.  Caught a shuttle to a bus to a train to bus to a train and back again! Downtown Naples: Our current home is at the Navy Lodge in Support Site in a “suburb” ish of Na...