Spring Break '97 in Europe

Last Spring Break, my roommate (Brian Perry) and I took a low budget trip to Europe.  Our original plans were to fly to Spain and spend the week there, but those got scrapped pretty fast.  Our journey started in beautiful Sabillasville, MD.  After saying goodby to my folks,  Brian and I  left for Norfolk, VA.  After about a five hour drive, we ended up at the Naval Air Station at Norfolk.  We had about four hours to kill, so we went out to eat and even went to the beach. 

After waiting for what seemed like forever, we finally got onto our Space A military flight.  Complete with meals and drinks.  Not bad for free.  After a stopover and a few drinks in Philadelphia, we flew across the Atlantic.  We stopped on these Portugeuse islands to refuel, then we took off again for Sicily.

The first thing we noticed in Sicily was how warm and sunny it was.  We went to a nearby town and got a hotel for the night, unpacked, and took a quick power nap.  When we got up, we went out to the nearby U.S. Naval base and got blitzed.  We went to this awesome little enlisted club.  They had these TVs everywhere and they were playing shit like old Ozzy videos and Motley Crue.

The next morning, we paid the price for our binge drinking.  I  wasn't as hung over as Brian was, but I didn't feel too hot.  After learning that our flight to Spain was mysteriously cancelled, we decided to rent a car and go see the countryside.  Our car was a little Fiat, and was typical of the cars in Sicily.   After we figured how to put the car in reverse (not an easy task) we took off.  The first place we went was this little dump of a town called Catania.  After we escaped from there, we went to this town called Taormina.  That was a pretty cool place.  Lots of the buildings  were really old and we got some good pictures of them.  They had some cool little bars there  and it didn't take too long until we figured out how to order a beer in Italian ("Bira!").

TO BE CONTINUED....