MONTEROZZI NECROPOLIS
Alana and I went directly to Tarquinia. Using Aggie’s rough directions to the archeological dig, we managed to arrive just after noon. We had no hotel arrangements yet but trusted that the nearby city of Civitavecchia would have accommodations for us when we were ready later in the day. Aggie told me that the team from the dig was staying in a little hotel in the city, so we hoped to find lodging there or nearby.
The dig was on a dusty plain east of Tarquinia and adjacent to an area circumscribed by fencing and signs that labeled it as the Monterozzi Necropoli in Italian. Back in the car, after we switched driving responsibilities about halfway through, I drove while Alana read descriptions of the area from her phone.
“‘Tarquinia is a small city, but the local envi
