After hours on the road, Martin headed south through Italy, still lost in thought about his grandfather"s journal. Even by the quickest route, the journey took an entire day, south on the A9 then A14 along Italy"s eastern coast. He had spent most of his trips to Italy searching the cities along the route taken by Anselm in 1943. This trip drove him farther south than he had ever been, but was consistent with the course that the colonel had taken so many years before toward Altamura.
Traffic along the Adriatic coastal highway was not the problem, but the frequent construction sites were, and these slowed Martin"s trip to Altamura. The itinerary took him past towns that he would have liked to explore, like the Republic of San Marino, an independent sovereign nation within Italy. He assumed
