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March 15, 1963 Pizzaolo and Expresso

3/15/2011

The pizza is a common any time snack in Italy. Every town has lots of coffee standup bars where people drop in for cappuchino and a small pizza. This pizza is made with thick bread-like dough and baked in an oven. The crust is thrown by hand into a round disc shape typically topped with tomato sauce and cheese. Expresso coffee is the only kind available in Europe and we are really becoming fans.

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A daily diary of a journey in 1962. Please post comments about where you were then on the Background page.

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1962 was pivotal. This is the background:

It was a year colored by the Cuban Missile Crisis, an escalating involvement in Vietnam, the Berlin Wall and the Cold War with Russia, Civil Rights issues, a nascent space program, Nelson Mandela in prison, Betty Friedan's, The Feminist Mystique, the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the death of Marilyn Monroe.

In the face of all of this, Pat, Judy and I blithely took off for Europe with the intention of traveling through Europe and North Africa until our money ran out. We had a travel guide and a book titled Europe on $5.00 a Day. Since we had all read The Ugly American in preparation for the trip, we thought we were very smart to buy a used Volkswagen with Dutch license plates. We dubbed the car "Louie" since a cute guy from Switzerland named Louie had helped us acquire it.

There was no such thing as a cell phone, a computer, Twitter or Facebook. Our parents didn't hear from us for weeks on end. We wrote regularly, but letters took forever to deliver and we only vaguely knew where we would be next. It was a very cold winter and we followed the sun.

March 15, 1963 Pizzaolo and Expresso

1962 was pivotal. This is the background:

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