Greetings all. Here’s the first of a number of Italy Trip posts. In this one, I’ll list the basics. How long we were gone, where we went, and how much distance we covered. By the way, I won’t get much into what we did, as I’ve already done that with my daily posts. This is just to talk about where we went and the distance covered. Also, except for counting steps, I’m not including normal stuff during the days, which probably adds another 50-60 miles.
Mostly, I’m doing this for my own amusement because I’m curious.
We left Anthony on Thursday, September 24 to drive to the Crowne Plaza Dallas Market Center (Love Field) hotel for P-Con, which we attended all weekend. This drive was 358 miles long.
On Monday, September 28, we flew from Dallas (DFW) to New York (JFK), which was 1391 miles.
We had a nine hour layover there to catch the same flight as the tour heading to Milan (MXP), and we arrived there at about noon on Tuesday on 3995 mile long flight.
From there, we drove 86 miles with the tour group to Turin where we stayed at the Hotel Victoria.
Then on Friday, October 2, we shifted to the Hilton Garden Inn, Milan North, which was 95 miles.
On Sunday, October 4, we drove 30 miles to the Hotel Barchetta Excelsior in Como. While in Como, we up and back to Bellagio on the lake. This cruise was 38 miles.
From there, on October 6th, we briefly went to Verona, which was 125 miles.
Continuing on, we ended up the day in Venice at the Hilton Molino Stucky. The drive to the Venezia Tronchetto was 75 miles and then about a mile on the water taxi.
On October 8th, we visited some glassblowers on Murano. This was 6 miles via water taxi back and forth.
Then on October 9th, another 2 miles on water taxi to the railroad station. Then we took the train to Florence, which was 171 miles plus 4 more miles in a cab to the Hotel Ville Sull’Arno.
On October 13th, we retraced our steps back to the station, so 4 more “interesting” Italian cab miles. Then we had 173 more train miles with another 3 more cab miles to the Palazzo Dama.
Then we started the way home on October 17th with a cab ride to Fiuminico Airport. That’s 18 miles to get on a plane for a flight of 5663 miles.
Later on October 17th (31 hour day!), we drove from DFW to the Courtyard by Marriott in Carrollton, which was 16 miles.
From there, we drove 347 miles to home.
For those counting at home, that’s:
11,049 miles by airplane
711 miles of driving
414 miles by bus
47 miles in water taxis
29 miles in cabs
That’s a total of 12250 miles or nigh unto the diameter of the Earth!
Plus we walked a ton, which I will now total.
9/25: 4420 steps, 2.23 miles
9/26: 2454 steps, 1.20 miles
9/27: 2186 steps, 1.06 miles
9/28: 8012 steps, 3.79 miles
9/29: 2231 steps, 1.06 miles
9/30: 8921 steps, 4.23 miles
10/1: 6337 steps, 2.97 miles
10/2: 4663 steps, 2.23 miles
10/3: 12645 steps, 5.93 miles
10/4: 2586 steps, 1.21 miles
10/5: 5437 steps, 2.50 miles
10/6: 5734 steps, 2.67 miles
10/7: 10388 steps, 4.87 miles
10/8: 7091 steps, 3.32 miles
10/9: 3594 steps, 1.70 miles
10/10: 11793 steps, 5.59 miles
10/11: 8955 steps, 4.21 miles
10/12: 10475 steps, 4.95 miles
10/13: 8146 steps, 3.92 miles
10/14: 9615 steps, 4.61 miles
10/15: 11776 steps, 5.61 miles
10/16: 11134 steps, 5.25 miles
10/17: 4494 steps, 2.12 miles
10/18: 3294 steps, 1.64 miles
That totals 166,381 steps for 78.87 miles in 24 days of walking around.
No wonder we were tired some days!
So there’s the time and space. Thanks for indulging me in my curiosity!