This weekend we read about luxury pools that come with upscale vacation rentals. A passenger gets arrested for using profanity. And Frontier Airlines struggles with fuel costs while Denver International Airport watches closely.

Wandering the hilly, narrow cobblestone streets in our home base of Montalcino, Italy, a Medieval city of interlocking passageways, steps and alleyways curving around and through and behind and beyond the main square, I reminded myself I was walking through history spanning eight hundred years.