In 1996 I had the opportunity to travel to Italy with my mother, father and brother Vince. I spent two weeks in Sicily visiting my mother's side of the family and two weeks in Italy where I met my father's relatives and visited Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan and points in-between. Everywhere I went I took a multitude of photographs and wrote about my experiences. As a result of that trip this book was created by putting tougher a collection of the poems I wrote and the photographs I took on my trip.