Venice in October

An old friend is getting married. He and his fiancée chose to do a small destination wedding in Italy. They’re both grown adults, no kids, and this will be their first marriage. Why not do it up big? Why not just have the parents and their very best friends out to celebrate? Family got wind of this plan and the small wedding became a bigger wedding. We decided this was a very good excuse to repeat our first trip to Italy. Just in time for la Biennale. After dropping off the poodle with the puppy grandparents, we made it to PDX with plenty of time to spare. We circled the Red Economy long enough to nearly give up and pay double for baller long-term parking near the terminal. We turned one more corner and found the last few open spots. The Rivian pickup truck that was hot on our tail found a home too. Together we wheeled our bags to the little airport bus shelter and waited.You can’t get to Venice directly from Portland. We flew Alaska Air to Seattle and then caught a British Air flight…