Positano Ho!

Quick Recap: Yesterday morning we got chase's visa back from the embassy with no problems. Everything looked correct. It's amazing what money will do. Then we saw the pantheon at midday. Finally, we ended up on the old appian way, the ancient entrance road to rome, where cars drive over the same stones where the chariot wheels wore grooves. There went down the crypts of san sebastian, the ancient meeting and entombment place of the first christians. There were no bones, as nothing survives 2000 years. It was a dissapointingly short tour, affording only the most breif of glimpses at the complex labrynths of tunnels and crypts. We saw the resting place of San Sebastain, and apparently, St. Peter and St. Paul were also originally buried in the area. It's quite an experiance, trying to imagine walking in hte same footsteps of these men, only 2000 years past! The appian way is really pretty and rural, with ruins of villas beside modern restored villas.
Last night, we walked along the Tiber river, which is little more than the salt river in arizona. We walked past the church of St. Bartholomew, which contains the relics of the apostle who was skinned. In fact, in sculpture and in painting, he is always seen holding his own skin.
Today we depart for Positano, a mountan side town so isolated, there aren;t even any cars. We have to catch a train to Salerno and from there, continue by local train and bus. I'm looking forward to losing the hordes of tourists cramming the city, and just kicking back in the isolated beach town. Rome just wears me out. I go to bed completely wiped every day I've been here.
Yesterday we went to the grocery store and bought a bunch of fruit to catch up on our vitamins and minerals.
The weather here has so far been very mild for Rome. The first few days here were pretty miserable, but then it cooled off after a rainstorm, and even been cool enough in the evenings for me to need my euro sweater.