"Turning Tuscan" is a story about what it's like to fall in love
with Tuscany in your mid-life years, to buy a home there, to change
around your work, and, finally, to leave the San Francisco Bay Area
and move with your wife and children to a tiny Tuscan village.
That's the first part. The second part tries to share what it's
like living here once you've made the move: learning the language,
becoming part of a village community, running a tour company,
understanding the political scene, getting an internet connection,
enjoying Renaissance art, spending time in the hospital,
appreciating the bureaucracy, and enduring customer service at The
Phone Company. It has been written in a way that will make you feel
like an honored guest invited into the cockpit as we transfer from
America to Tuscany and set up shop. And, in case you are wondering
what kind of crazy person does such a thing, and whether you might
be one, I try to share enough personal history and detail about our
lives on both sides of the ocean to satisfy your curiosity. As a
foreigner who enters into another culture, there is a limited
window of time available to you to see these things and to try to
record them in some way. You have to become Italian enough to play
the game, but not so Italian yet that it all becomes invisible. If
you wait too long, you are no longer in a position to reflect or
comment on cultural differences because what people are doing seems
totally normal to you. Ripeness is all, as the poet said, and
hopefully I've managed to capture for you some of the subtler
aspects of living here that travel photos, even high resolution
ones, can never reveal.
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