It is hard not to feel joie de vivir while traveling through Rome. Every corner is a history book just waiting to be read by you, the reader. It hums with energy of the past and hope for the future. It is brutal and glorious all rolled into one and then there’s the gelato. Gelato IS joie de vivir and I truly believe it holds healing properties. I am not kidding anytime the heat got to me or I was feeling sick I would get a gelato and miraculously feel better. As I watched the people of Rome I saw people who know how to hustle, who don’t take no for an answer, who don’t let anyone steamroll them but do the steamrolling. I saw women who dressed beautifully and walked the city in heels. How? I do not know because we logged at least ten miles a day minimum walking in Rome.
