Cuban Road Trip: Reporter’s Notebook

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7. France would not satisfy either of us.

My husband lived in Italy for many years and still has a lot of friends there. We lived there last summer and it absolutely felt like home to him and he is establishing his residency there.

But, I am determined to become bilingual and Spanish is the language I have dedicated myself to. I spend 5-6 hours a day studying and am going to take an immersion course in March.

Italian just confuses me. It is too close and at the same time too different than Spanish.

I know this is a first world problem, right? Who is so fortunate to have to decide between two of the most wonderful countries on earth?

It looks like it will be 3 months Italy, 3 months Spain and 6 months Mexico….. at least for the foreseeable future. On the upside is that it is less expensive to live in any of these countries than the US.

Have you been on a Road Scholar trip before? I sent my mom on an elder hostel trip and she didn't really like it.