Seeing Assisi

Regarding “Picking Up the Pieces in Assisi,” Sept. 12: We have visited Assisi four different years, always in an RV. On our last trip, we drove down the mountain road from Camping Fontemaggio, parked in the “wrong” parking lot and found a two-story, canopy-covered escalator leading up the hill toward the upper town. At the top of the escalator, we walked higher through the town, then turned and walked down, down and down the hill, snaking through this most unusual city. Fruit and vegetable vendors filled market squares, and pink-stoned houses and stores lined the narrow walkways.

It turns out that parking in that lot and walking those miles down the hill was one of the best travel ideas we ever had, even if it was an accident.

JIM and EMMY HUMBERD

La Quinta