![]() “And I say, ‘Well, there was no runway.’” “My family’s always saying ‘You took the first thing smokin’ on the runway out of here!” says Mayes, who divides her time between homes in Cortona, Italy, and Hillsborough, North Carolina. ![]() “The irrational flash of ‘This is for me!’ came as a shock,” says the author and Fitzgerald, Georgia native, though she acknowledges her wanderlust began in high school when she first dreamed of escaping her tiny town and seeing the world. The first time Frances Mayes visited Italy in 1970, she experienced a metabolic connection to a country that would become her home 20 years later. ![]()
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