Day 11: The Last and Longest Day

May 21st Day 11 in Florence then Rome

Kristina’s FitBit Information: 2.45 Miles walked & 5,650 steps

We gathered in the Hotel Arizona lobby at 5:30 AM to load the bus and hit the road for the airport in

Rome. It was supposed to be about a three hour car ride and everything was going smoothly for the first couple of hours. Who would have thought that after steady driving we would hit completely stopped traffic? Add that to a bus driver who doesn’t speak any English, mix both of those things with a tight schedule and you get a recipe for disaster.



Our bus hadn’t moved for a long time and we eventually had to play charades with the driver to

figure out why we were stopped for so long. After a couple minutes of guessing, we learned that there was an accident involving an overturned cattle truck. There was only one tragedy of the accident; a cow from the truck did die. This whole mess caused more than six kilometers (a little over three miles) of back up on the highway. We made extremely slow progress through the traffic and past the accident. We eventually made it to the airport, but did miss our flight.