Two Nuts In Italy

Download or read book Two Nuts in Italy written by Sue Ellen Haning and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traipsing through a foreign country with nothing but faith, a backpack, and an overly confident twenty-one-year-old daughter had never been a dream of fifty-six-year-old Sue Ellen Haning. But when her daughter, Jenny, proposed the trip, Haning, with reservation, finally agreed. A veteran teacher, she was excited to lose herself across the ocean, learn things by accident, and have adventure find her. Haning's friends thought she was nuts. In this travel memoir, Haning recounts the adventures she and her daughter experienced during a three-month summer backpacking trip in Italy. Their plan was to take a backpack, a little cash, no credit cards, stay in homes of Italians they did not know (or sleep on park benches, if necessary), have no itinerary, and stay in small towns for the full cultural experience. "Two Nuts in Italy" recounts an array of adventures-finding herself in bed with a strange Italian, surviving a five-hour car ride with a psychic who claimed she was the devil, and looking out the window of a moving train to see her daughter clinging to the side. It narrates a no-holds-barred travel experience that transformed Haning into a different person.