I felt much better this morning than I did last night. Walking over to breakfast felt okay. I did take a pain reliever in the morning, so maybe that helped. I did not get a good night sleep. I felt hot during the night; I could not cool off. It was quite dreadful. Then some time during the night I heard the sound of fireworks. I don't know if it was fireworks or firecrackers. They went off very consistently. I couldn't quite tell if it was fireworks or someone shooting off a weapon. In fact, I wondered for a few seconds if this was the sound of Vesuvius exploding and rocks hitting the city.

We began our daytrip with a half hour walk across town to a different train station. This train would take us to our destination, the ancient Greek and Roman ruins of Paesum. It was a Greek settlement from the 4 century B.C. or even earlier. For instance, there were several excellent examples of Greek temples.  There was evidence, however, of the change in the city when it became a Roman colony. Let me add that it was nice little hike from the train station to the town. After looking through the ruins for a few hours, we were to have lunch and then meet up at the museum. While some of us were sitting down to lunch, others decided not to break for a long lunch but go ahead and look at the museum. After we had lunch, we still caught up to the rest of the group still in the museum. Then after about ten minutes, some of them went off for lunch. The museum has a nice collection of Greek pottery from the site. There are also some excellent wall paintings showing Greek culture and myth.

We ended the afternoon by retracing our steps. I wore sandals today and develop some blisters and wore some skin off. It was a good day of exercising my mind and as well as exercising my body.

Back at the motel I had a good, long swim in the pool. Then I sat with some of our group poolside, and we had a great conversation about people's religious experiences and attitudes toward spirituality and organized religion.

Tomorrow morning groups of people are going off in different directions. I probably should stay with the group that wants to go look at the most popular structures in the Pompeii site for a few hours. Then we'll be heading to Naples and on back to Rome.