Husbandless Honeymoon

In high school, my friends and I came up with the concept of a Husbandless Honeymoon. This was long before any of us had any serious romantic contenders in our lives, but well after we'd been bitten by the travel bug and had big plans for how often we wanted to travel "when we grew up" and what kinds of amazing adventures we'd have as #ladieswhotravel. (Of course, at the time we came up with this idea, the concept of hashtags was at least a decade away. Times change and one adapts technology as one needs to; Skype and SnapChat? Very useful.)

and because of this idea, Rebecca and I found ourselves boarding a plane bound for Venice on the last Saturday in March. Destination: a litany of places that neither of us had ever seen. Condition: significant others and pets stayed home. For two weeks, through Venice, Lucca, Pisa, Manarola, Milan, Marseilles, Carcassonne, and Barcelona, we were #ladieswhotravel, walking just about everywhere and soaking up as much of European sunshine and wine as we could muster. we actually didn't do that much hiking exactly - except for two days in the Cinque Terre - but we didn't worry too much about maps as we explored all these towns, managing to hit more than 20k steps every day save the one we only hit 18k and spent 8 hours on a train. 

I'll write more about our adventures over at ericagoestraveling.com, but I'll share details from our two hikes coming up soon!