| Sophie and Jack left the PRESIDENT PIERCE at Naples and spent about eighteen days touring Rome, Florence, Venice, Vienna ,Munich, Paris, Marseilles, Monaco and Riviera. Sophie's memoir mentions a trip to Oberammagau in the off-seaon with a friendly driver who charged a low rate because he was permitted to bring his children along for the ride. Papers indicated Jack investigated hotels in Salzburg aznd elsewhere, but details of itinerary are unknown. The toured Rome and saw 0pera there, spent much time in Uffizi Art Gallery Florence, and brought home a guidebook of Naples Art Museum and directory of Maritime Museum Monace, where a thief tried to steal Sophie's purse, but she held on, and he ran down a long steep stairway.The riviera bus went to the Italian border, where there passports were stamped into Italy, but when the bus driver signalled it was time to reboard, their passposrts were never stamped out of Italy and back into France. The passage to New York from Marseilles on S.S. Van Buren was unusually stormy March l932, and they were delayed, so Jack had to hurry by train to report for duty at Charlestown Navy Yard Boston March 32, l932. Originally they had booked ship transport all the way via New York to Boston. Sophie spent a day or two visiting her family in Hartford, Connecticut, while Jack hurried to report for Navy duty. |
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