DAY 91

Monday 10 October 2011

We awoke in our little church parking lot sanctuary to an elderly woman gesticulating and speaking rapid Italian in earnest. We took it as the church Altar Society giving us their blessing before we moved on.
Heading for Manfredonia, a town on the peninsula of the Adriatic Sea, we set our GPS for Camp Lido Salpo. James Bond, our navigator (Garmin) couldn't have foreseen the road blocks, but a local at the port forewarned us and said to continue through. Boy were we glad we did! Off the beaten path, but with a beautiful layout ten feet from the beach, we had hot showers, laundry, WiFi, and (drum roll) our very own pizza kitchen! We decided to stay two days.

Photo by Charles

Camping can be relaxing, but our schedule has had us staying only one night in most cases. At Camp Lido Salpi, we relaxed by doing laundry, beach combing, and building a shelf in the closet of the car. The weather was blustery and at one point Nicole thought we could reenact the scene from Lawrence of Arabia where he's trudging across the Sahara. We settled for whistling the theme song while picking sand out of our teeth.

In the camp restaurant

The computer was charged up, and we even got to talk to Dian's mom and dad for 30 minutes on Google Voice. We had pizza for dinner (two mushrooms and one four cheese) and yes, this chef obliged us by throwing the dough in the air. We sent out an e-mail and got many responses in return, which was so heart warming. Nicole and Dian put together a set list for their performance in Umbria, and all the feral cats harmonized.

Photos by Charles