Rasmania 102

We're used to things going fairly smoothly, but once in a while we run into a flat tire.  This time it was literal.  We left home to drive to Flaming Gorge to spend Memorial Day weekend (we thought of loved ones, but didn't visit any graves--we'll have to do that in the near future).  When we got nearly to Morgan, the tire on our boat trailer blew. It not only blew, it shredded.  We pulled over and Roy changed the tire.  I stood at the back of the boat to give oncoming cars a little more to see so they would move over a lane and give Roy a wide berth.  Most of them did, but a few made us a little nervous.  After the tire was changed, a quick examination of the remaining tires helped Roy decide to see if we could replace them all before we continued on.  It was one of those tender mercies that we found a tire place nearby with exactly 5 of the right tires--just what we needed.  We got the tires changed and went on our way.  Since we were delayed by a couple of hours, we deci

Rome We planned to arrive in Rome a couple of days prior to joining our tour group so that we could aclimate to the time change.  The first night there we had tickets to an opera concert.  We were lucky to make it since our flight from Utah to Paris was delayed two hours and we missed our flight from Paris to Rome.  We enjoyed the concert so much, that we bought tickets to hear the first violinist become the soloist for Vivaldi's Four Seasons.  He was fabulous. Roy took a picture of these paving stones because he'd never realized that the stone is actually a wedge that fits down into the pavement.  He always thought they were just square stones placed together. Our first dinner in Rome. It was fun to eat true Italian pizza again. Rome: Food Tour Catharine with our guide (Sara) in a restaurant where we tried true Roman pizza. Roy was surprised that the crust was thin.  He thought that pizza in the south was thick crust.  They did have a panini that we discovered later that had t