New Site

I've been in Italy for almost 3 weeks now and in that time we've now erected 8 turbines at 2 different sites.  This week has been my first week at a different site in Italy - even further south than the last one.  If you're really curious it's in Maida Catanzaro and it was about 6hrs drive from my last site.  The drive was quite an interesting experience if you consider getting lost like 30 times interesting.  I thought I could wing it with printed google maps directions, but following those is next to impossible because a "main" road in Italy can be this narrow half paved road that winds around a mountain.  Oh and street signs... yeah they basically don't exist.  So after about an hour of being lost and probably 12 U-turns I said forget this and hopped on the highways and took the long way.

I was sent down to this different site to help out since they're trying to do a last push before the holidays to finish.  Without getting into too many details this site has had pretty much every problem you can think of.  The one major problem has been the weather.  In the 5 days or so it's been sunny and 70, cold/rainy/lightning and 30m/s winds (which is like 67mph...)  The new site is actually pretty close to the water too so I'm hoping I can get Sunday off and do a little sightseeing. 

I've also in my one week heard some pretty crazy stories that basically screamed stereotypical southern Italy.  Again these are just stories and are probably better told in person.  But let's just say that it's all about the people you know around here.

Now I'll leave you with some pictures that one of my colleagues took of my site and the surrounding area.