Then our longest driving day – 6 ½ hours to Velletri, about an hour south of Rome - to visit with our friends Romolo and Angela de Paolis there, for two nights.  Then, we'll barge in on Denise and Steve Haerr, who are living in Spoleto in Umbria for a year, and spend two nights with them.  From there, we'll be in Panzano, Tuscany, in the heart of Chianti Classico country for three nights.  Then, we'll go just across the Val di Chiana to my personal favorite place in Italy, the lovely hilltown of Cortona in southeastern Tuscany for our fourth visit there.  After three nights in Cortona, we'll head north to Sirmione on Lake Garda – a place we really enjoyed in 2008, and try to find some nice Valpolicella or Amarone to taste.  From there, we'll head north to the Alps again, stopping to visit a client in Bolzano on the way.  We'll turn in the car in Munich on 7/17 so they can put it on a boat with a bunch of brand new BMWs and ship it to South Bay BMW in Torrance, CA, where we'll see it again in about eight weeks.  The next day, we fly back to beautiful San Diego – a pretty darned good place to come home to.  Should be fun – stay tuned for more! ~David