Double Fantasy Holiday - Italian Style
Was this real or a dream? If it was real, then it was a dream come true. It all started with an email from a long-time guitar-playing friend. He sent me a link to a flat-picking guitar workshop in the Italian Alps (Dolomites) and suggested I should consider attending. I put it off not sure if I had the time and talent to participate. Then after receiving an invitation from an Italian flight test colleague to come stay at his summer home on the Adriatic Sea in the village of Pineto, I inquired about the workshop and learned that that there was one slot left after someone had cancelled. So I jumped in and started making plans. I had left my Taylor guitar in Italy 3 years earlier with a street musician who I had become friends with. I arranged to pick it up near Milan, hoping it was still in good shape. My Italian colleague who had invited me to his family home, offered that I could bring a friend to stay. I contacted a bright young flight test engineer, who I had met in May wh