Hiking the Dolomites in 2018

Using the listserv, Wayne Willis has directed us to this page, which I had not really visited before. Since the listserve reaches only 120 whereas this post will reach 730 of my classmates, I thought I would try posting something that may be of interest to a few of you.

In July of this year, I spent two weeks in northern Italy. The first week, in Bologna, Padua and Vicenza. I wanted to visit the two oldest universities in Europe in Bologna and Padua, to see the simple dais from which Galileo taught his students for 18 years in Padua. As I approached Padua on the fast train, I felt like Lucentio in The Taming of a Shrew:

Tranio, since for the great desire I had
To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,
I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant garden of great Italy;
…. for I have Pisa left
And am to Padua come, as he that leaves
A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep
And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.

During the second week, I hiked with some Sierra Club friends from Boulder for a week in the Dolomites. Here’s a photo of me that a friend from Boulder took as we hiked for a week in the Dolomites in July.

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  1. Wayne
    Congratulations on your hiking! I know Vicenza well as our son Tim and his family live there where he is design engineer for Zamperla. This is an Italian international company in the amusement park ride and management industry. The Dolomites are one of my favorite areas. Look forward to catching up at our reunion. Ciao! Peter

  2. Macon, this is a short story that captures the essence of so much of life. We’re always moving toward a future – a place, or event, or experience – that is calling us and just beyond our reach, while at the same time we’re enriched with the insight, wit and wisdom of the past (especially Shakespeare).