Gold Mine – Brusson, Italy

  Guido picks us up in the Aosta Valley, in far north-west Italy.  Guido is 33, tall, lean and has a winning smile.  He is the sheriff of his small village. The name of Guido’s village is Brusson, which means “gold mine”, but all the gold ran out centuries ago. As we wind along the…

The Roof of Europe – Monte Bianco, Italy

…Italian people consider hitching old fashioned, associate it with the hippy era and rarely give rides.  Italians do not hitchhike themselves and consider hitchhikers to be dangerous… The further south we go in France the slower we move.  The cars get more expensive and the rides sparser. A guy stops for us and he is…