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Back at the aeroporte, we discovered that getting out of Italy is slightly more difficult than getting in, partly because of the plentiful duty-free shops. By the time we finished buying lemoncello, chocolate, and Italian cookies, both our bags were bigger than some Italian cars and we topped the scales at 250 pounds of luggage. But hey, they had wheels just like the cars do, so we rolled those fat babies over to the American counter and checked them as quickly as possible. The trip home was a blur of in-flight Johnny Depp movies and Chicago deep-dish pizza. This flight was even longer and the night was shorter than before. In fact, there was no night at all! We took off from Rome at 11am and landed in Chicago at 2pm that same day after a ten-hour flight. We spent a long layover in Chicago eating good old American cheeseburgers and leafing through our travel books, remembering all the amazing places we had visited in Italy. It sure would have been boring without those guidebooks. I guess it's a good thing we didn't use them to get us out of that Tuscan ditch. You see, everything is connected.
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