We woke up in our hotel this morning to find that it was not the creepy place we thought it was last night. The sun was shining through the windows on to what now looked like the inside of a beautiful old building. Even though the elevator still shook when it stopped moving, everything was far less sinister.
Corey Horn and I spent the entire day walking all over Rome. Rome is a great city and the people here are wonderful. We met up with our tour guide of sorts, her name was Jane, and she showed us all of the sites any awestruck American would want to see.
The thing that I could not wrap my mind around here was purely the age of the city. In America I am so used to looking at a structure and thinking about the decade of the past century that it was built in. I can tell from the construction, the styling, and the technology. Here, it’s not even the realization that the structures are older than American structures. The buildings here are from movies, movies that my naive mind categorized as fiction. It’s incredible what humans have done in the years we’ve had.
I’m getting pretty fond of having this camera hung across my body… I will miss it when it’s not there to capture the beauty of the life around me… that means I’m uploading a freaking ton of pictures. The first few are hopefully comforting pictures of our hotel in daylight.
Great pictures! Rome is beautiful.