We do the take a hike/walk on first day of the year as well! This year we drove 10 hours! *smack head* returned from visiting family-friends in another state! :) But we did do a few hikes while there - so that counts?
Outside Verona was the first time I experienced snow!!! <3 That's how I always remember the city. Sure, it was on the side of the highway with maybe 2 inches of snow (it was our school trip from Rome, to see the house of Romeo and Juliet!) - but my schoolmates & teachers and the driver were flabbergasted that I had never seen snow (born and raised in Southern India) - so driver stopped the bus on the side of the road so I could frolic in it! ha haha... Lived in Rome a few years when I was a teenager. It was my first country outside my country of birth and so it has a very special place in my heart - the people, the food and the place.
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Outside Verona was the first time I experienced snow!!! <3 That's how I always remember the city. Sure, it was on the side of the highway with maybe 2 inches of snow (it was our school trip from Rome, to see the house of Romeo and Juliet!) - but my schoolmates & teachers and the driver were flabbergasted that I had never seen snow (born and raised in Southern India) - so driver stopped the bus on the side of the road so I could frolic in it! ha haha... Lived in Rome a few years when I was a teenager. It was my first country outside my country of birth and so it has a very special place in my heart - the people, the food and the place.