Making the choice to move to Italy from San Francisco was not an easy one, but I knew the second I pulled my suitcase out of the closet that I was making the right decision. My empty luggage was hibernating patiently in the dark, but like a toothache it was a constant, dull and throbbing reminder I had been in one place for far too long. It was an insistent relic of where I’d been, and where I still wanted to go. I was accepted to a two-year Masters program, the initial portion located in northern Italy, and knew it was time to scratch the powerful itch to move, to see, to travel. So I packed my grey suitcase beyond the point of legal weight limits, lugged it across the ocean via Air France (which has touch screen on-demand movies… how far we’ve come), and landed in Bologna about a week ago.

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Mexico’s Second-Largest City is the ultimate Fusion of the past and present, and both will give you a vacation you’ll be talking about for years to come. Guadalajara’s heart is the Centro-Historico where meticulously preserved buildings from the Colonial era provide a Picturesque backdrop suitable for everything from a destination Wedding to a Meeting of long-lost friends.

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