Salem, Massachusetts
Each time I travel, I try to read as much as possible about my destination. In 2008, when I went to Rome and Florence, with a week stay at a villa in Tuscany to celebrate Nancy Suib's 60th birthday, I read a biography of Lorenzo di Medici, a book about the building of St. Peter's basilica, and of course, Under the Tuscan Sun, all the rage at that time. I had to put down Tuscan Sun halfway through. I was too envious. The writer's villa was too beautiful, her study...