Karl’s Italian Adventure
Karl Simons sat on the tour bus as it rattled its way through the streets of Florence. It was the first day of his Italy in Seven Days vacation. He’d never been to Europe before. Never traveled much at all, but he figured a middle school geography/history teacher ought to have a bit of practical experience to share with his students. So, at fifty-one years old, he set out on his first trip outside the United States.
Beside him was Myrna, talking non-stop as she had ever since she had attached herself to him at breakfast when she’d discovered he was single. Myrna was a dumpy, forty-something woman from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She had won this trip in some sort of contest that the state had held for school staff. It was evident to Karl, from the very first moments of
