I miss my car. If you were here you’d understand. Getting from here in Capri, an Island on the bay of Naples, to Mt. Vesuvius which we can see from here, took us like four hours. Bus ride, Boat ride, Bus ride, Train ride, private Bus ride, long hike that really hurt my calves and made me rethink my lack of fitness-Mt. Vesuvius. And every ride costs money. However, once we got to the chasm, that ended a town and changed the face of history a couple thousand years ago, it was pretty cool. The view was nice. You could see Capri, Naples and Sorrento probably. I don’t really know because it was kinda cloudy and I had my glasses on, but I’m assuming on a clear day with decent vision you could. The highlights of Vesuvius were that they had peanut M&Ms at the store at the top, which of course I bought and engulfed, thanking God that at one time an American company decided to go international with their chocolate goods. And that I fell walking down the mountain because the path changed from gravel to cobblestone. An older Italian speaking woman yelled something at me that I’m going to use my gut feeling to translate. “Oh….You alright? You kinda fell there. Oh you’re okay. That’s good. Haha. You just did the Pompeii pose.”

After Vesuvius our journey took us to another train which we rode, got off, got back on because we got out at the wrong stop and got off again at Pompeii. Before we left the states, we were told to get these cards that show that you are in fact a student and could probably get you discounts. At the ticket counter at Pompeii I asked the lady if it helped to which she replied “What country are you from?” in a dirty Italian accent. I told her “Uh…..American.” She said “………..No, you pay the same.” Dang card. So I got my ticket. After lunch which I somehow thought was at 2 and was really at like 430, man time flies, we decided to go see the ruined city. But there is a catch.

I’m filming for a story that I’m doing and Rico is voicing. We get a couple shots of the outside and maybe three of the inside. As we are trying to shoot a stand-up or a monologue, a crowd of about thirty people touring the city gather around behind us. Rico is having trouble with the pressure, bless his heart, but is doing okay at delivering his lines when out of nowhere the Pompeii press release mafia come and shut us down. We show our press passes that are made of two pieces of paper that have been laminated which resemble Bible School nametags, but they don’t budge. “Let say I’m a journalist in America, and I come to your house and start shooting pictures. You are happy, no? No you are not this is the same.” Please stop, go back and read it again. This is what the gentleman said to us in broken italian accented english, and I don’t get how my house and the lost city of Pompeii are anywhere near the same thing. So after being kicked out of Pompeii for an illegal journalistic expedition. We barely make it on the train to head back to Sorrento to Catch our ferry back to Capri where we will sleep. But again, there is a catch.

We get to the ferry ticket station after a train ride, bus ride, thirty yard walk. And come to find out that the 20:05 ferry that we had been counting on didn’t exist. Needless to say we were kind of stranded. Lucky for us, our professor had connections on the Island and got us two little speed boats which came and got us, and took us the forty minutes across the Bay of Naples. We all had our cameras out luckily because as we got out of the harbor at Sorrento, we saw this massive yacht which we are pretty sure belonged to Microsoft founder William “Bill” Gates. Until I googled it and found out it is owned by Paul Allen co-founder of Microsoft. It was called the “Octopus” and had two helicopters. I really want a yacht. Anyway after we got out of the yacht’s massive shadow, we got to see possibly the most beautiful sunset I’ve ever seen. So all in all everything turned out great and I slept for thirteen hours last night. YES. Until next time. Peace.

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