Our Italy trip

We spent 10 days in Italy in early April. It was a lot of fun.Back when I was a grad student, I stayed in Pisa for a month for a "summer school on mobile computing" in 2003. Mobile computing was the next "big" thing back then. (In retrospect, the research was misguided about the local/distributed approach to it, as most of mobile computing reconciled to cloud backends as that is often more efficient.) When I was in Pisa, I didn't travel around much, but I now realize I should have spent every weekend traveling. (In my defense, without Internet enabling trip planning/execution, and without GPS on the phone, traveling was very cumbersome, yes, back in 2003.)RomeRome is amazing! The history is incredibly well preserved. Kudos to the Italians.Rome is very walkable. The buses, on the other hand, were packed solid. My daughters were genuinely surprised by this exotic new form of transportation that does not exist in the US.The art in the Vatican was exquisite. All the masters, all in one…