When Ion, my partner of under a year, asked me if I wanted to go hiking in Italy with him, I looked him dead in the eye like a teen girl meeting a Jonas Brother, and enthusiastically said “Sure, sounds fun.” Sounds fun? Apparently love makes you crazy at any age. On the inside I had some serious reservations about this trip. For starters, hiking in Italy sounded very “backpack-y” to me, like we were going to end up sleeping on the floor in hostels and eating out of tin cans. I’d somehow …
