I discovered Italy in the mid sixties when I was assigned to a NATO facility in La Spezia, Italy by the US Navy.  Having been born and raised in the Midwest, I had entered the Navy upon graduation from UCLA in 1961, intent upon seeing the world.  Following assignments in Japan and Germany, the prospect of duty in Italy originally just meant an opportunity to see a little more of Europe before heading stateside.

We settled into our home in the picturesque seaside village of San Terenzo near the La Spezia facility.  My two young sons quickly learned to chatter in fluent Italian, thanks to our lovely landlady.  And I found myself enamored of all things Italian: music, food and the Italian spirit.   Although we traveled to most of Italy's fantastic cities, Rome, Florence, Venice and many others, the two year stay in San Terenzo was all too short.

During the next several decades, as I completed 21 years in the Navy and started my own consulting business, I often thought about going back to the location of my favorite Navy assignment.  In 1991, that opportunity finally materialized in a vacation trip to our old haunts with old friends from the NATO center.  We stayed in a small country house a few kilometers from San Terenzo.  We shopped in the local villages, lugged our demijohns back to a little bar for refilling with local vino di tavola, ate delicious food at tiny trattorie with no written menus and rediscovered the good life, la dolce vita.  DOMANI-USA was born on that trip and has flourished ever since.

We would love to share the experience of the real Italy with you and your friends and family.