Sicily
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Cindy Sheahan, 64, who retired from real estate in 2017 and left Colorado to travel abroad. In 2025, Sheahan settled in Palermo, Italy. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.In 2017, I was at a crossroads. A lot of…
When she’s not busy caring for everyone else, my grandmother loves to travel.She’s the one who really instilled a sense of wanderlust in our whole family. She’s often embarking on a solo trip, or at least researching her next excursion across Europe.For the longest time, her biggest dream was to…
When my husband said we were staying on an active volcano, I thought he was joking. I had left this portion of the planning for our trip to Sicily to him, so I was totally clueless as to where we were going when we boarded the ferry.Three hours later, I…
