This study, a survey of participants of a summer STSA in Italy, now the most common study abroad programs in the most popular geographical area, complemented with five in-depth interviews, sought to understand how students see their experiences and most specifically the importance of out-of-class traveling every weekend. Data revealed that students mainly intended to study abroad to travel to other European cities and use Florence as a home base independently of how many times students had previously traveled abroad. The main motivation to select the program had been to be to visit other places rather than focusing on course credits and worry about academics.