Now we start out on our trip from Milano to Padua. This is the first time on the 
highways of Italy. Here we go....<p><img src="DSC_0485.jpg"></p>
<p>Looks like a normal highway for the most part.</p>
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<p>Gotta get pictures of the power lines for Charlene!!</p>
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<p>Here is a rest stop complete with a restaurant - don't have to get off the 
highway. Just like our turnpike rest areas.</p>
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<p>It's not easy to see, but we're driving parallel and about 75 miles south of 
the Swiss Alps.</p>
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<p>...in a Ford Focus!!!&nbsp; This was actually a very large vehicle, 
relatively speaking.</p>
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<p>They actually had Wi-Fi hot spots along the highway. Not cheap though - about 
$3.00/hour. (and you thought cable was expensive!!)</p>
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<p>Still hard to see the mountains in the pictures. You're just going to have to 
come out and see for yourself !!!</p>
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<p>JP was in his own world with his video game. Not much room back there - but 
he was cozy.</p>
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<p>Still trying to get the mountains off in the distance. As we traveled towards 
Venice, the mountains got further away.</p>
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<p>Wish this was a video - the guy in the left lane blew my doors off...and I 
was doing about 70 at the time.</p>
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<p>Off the highway, heading for the town of &quot;Rubano&quot;</p>
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<p>And here we are....the town of Rubano. It really does exist!!</p>
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<p>Not very big - here's the end of the town already.&nbsp; I think it's smaller 
than Oviedo???</p>
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<p>Of course, every town has to have it's own MacDonalds....</p>
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<p>Ok, gas isn't cheap. 1 Gallon of gas is 3.785 liters. That's $5.08 per 
gallon. But wait, that's in Euros, not dollars. It takes 1.53 dollars to buy one 
Euro. So now we're at $7.77 per gallon. And we though we had it bad!!! It's a 
good thing this car gets about 30 city and 45 highway mpg.</p>
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<p>The view from our room in Padua. We'll be here for two days while we take a 
train to Venice.</p>
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<p>The bathrooms are very different out here. They don't give you much room in 
the shower!!<br>
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