Andy and Alex in Italy
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 08.02.05 | 12:16 PM ET
Ever since I interviewed Rick Steves’ 18-year-old son, Andy, before he left on his first parent-free trip to Europe, I’ve been reading the travel weblog he keeps with his buddy, Alex. It’s a good weblog, and reading it reminds me of the giddy sense of discovery I felt on my first solo trip to Europe. It’s a nostalgic, vicarious thrill. Yesterday, Alex broached a subject they hadn’t addressed much: girls. You have to appreciate his honesty.
“They are a beautiful thing and seem to be even more beautiful in Europe,” he writes. “However, it is probably the scariest thing in the world to go up to a gorgeous Sicilian woman who doesn’t speak any English and try and talk to her. But, we seem to manage just fine. Andy has a girlfriend back at home (I feel bad for him because they are really hot over here) so I usually fly solo. But he comes along for support sometimes.” What a guy.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
