A visit to Corleone, the birthplace of the main character in The Godfather, Marlon Brando, was essential to the trip: romantic streets, incredible food and great cappucinos. Photo: Jeff Rueppel.
My trip to Sicily’s sport-climbing paradise, the fabled limestone of San Vito Lo Capo, started with a massive disappointment—a reminder to not fly
too high until you could—nothing major and nothing to do with mother Sicily, since it happened in the Rome airport, but it was aggravating because I had to relearn a universal truth first debated at length by Plato and Aristotle in their 4th century B.C. philosophical Academy.