Auto spell checkers are a curse

Make that "Trainspotting at Termini," not "Transporting." Spell checkers ruin more messages than they rescue.

Transporting at Termini

Nothing interesting or elevating about flying the Atlantic on United, but a few hours to kill at Rome's Termini Rail Station is always entertaining. After breakfast at a fast food joint -- even rail station quick stops have good cappuccino in Italy -- I switched to an earlier train to Formia. The Palermo Regional seemed to be the longest haul train stopping in Formia. But they must assign equipment according to the destination and not the distance. Instead of the red bullet train, I got the ancient wheezer in the second picture (the train, not the guy, but they seemed to be something of a pair). Oh, well, I'll be in Formia in 45 minutes.

On The Via Appia

Birds chirp, frogs burp, spring hits, and I quit.  Quit pretending to be a productive member of society, at least. I'm off to Rome and then to Minturno do Marina on the coast near Naples.  From there I'll walk north on the old Via Appia back to Rome.  Apart from having to leave my flowering dogwood tree and about-to-flower lilies of the valley, what could be finer?