Logistics: Trains Planes and Automobiles

Our last few European Vacations have been "Camino Walks". Once we began, we walked each day from town to town until we were done. The days logistics consisted primarily of walking to our next nights lodging, and figuring out how to get in.

This trip was more stressful, logistically. Our transportation needs required a bit more than flying there and walking. In the course of our travels, we used, in addition to our feet: planes, trains, subways, busses, private cars, Uber, taxis, and bicycles. The planes, trains, and busses required advance reservations. In addition, we took in the sights. Since this is Italy, they all cost money to see, tickets are required (often months in advance), and all sights are closed on various days of the week and and times of day. At one point, late last year, we built a spreadsheet of all the sights, open days, plane and bus schedules, and tried to figure out how to schedule a path through time that allowed us to see everything. Can't be done. Invariably we would end up in a city on the day the sight we wanted to see was closed. If we shifted to a different day, then some other sight in a different city wouldn't be open. In the end, we reluctantly decided it wasn't possible to see everything in one visit, so we we abandoned the spreadsheet and the anxiety it was inducing.