Our plan as we left Lake Itasca was to travel as far as Fargo, North Dakota. What we didn’t think about was that campsites would be scarce on a weekend in July in a city with few campgrounds. Plan B. We called the toll free number for recreation.gov and got a reservation for two nights at a Corps of Engineers campground north of Valley City. We’ve got a grassy site with a view of the lake. Temperatures are hovering around perfect. The night sky is incredible and we are totally enjoying a day of doing nothing!
It was an incredible experience to actually walk the streets of Pompeii, once a bustling resort town in the Roman Empire until 79 AD when an apocalyptic explosion buried it under 20 feet of volcanic ash. Archeological excavations since the 19th Century continue to reveal evidence of a thriving community.
Once the largest cruise ship in the world, Allure of the Seas will be our home for the next seven nights as we cruise the Western Mediterranean and explore the eighteen decks of this behemoth.
Our recent travel misadventures seriously curtailed our time in Rome pre-cruise but we did get to visit the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel before making the trip to Civitavecchi for an overnight in the port city of Rome preparatory to departing on Allure of the Seas tomorrow.
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