Merely a month late to celebrate my first print feature in July’s Nat Geo - a trip across Italy and along the 20 million euro restoration of the Appian Way. Can the world’s first road become its greatest walking trek? It’s a question 2,000 years in the making that photographer @andrea_frazzetta first posed to me in 2020. I’m honored to have helped shepherd his vision - just took a couple of years to bring it to y’all. Our story about sustainable tourism expanded to explore cultural pride, infrastructure, and history in Italy. Peek more photos, drone footage edited by @rebekahbellbarlas and the winding, witty text from @ninastrochlic online 🗺