Craziness

June 20 America-Milano

We made it to Milan with bike and trailer in tow. Our bike was inspected by TSA so we’re hoping that they didn’t take any integral pieces. And who knows, since they cut the box all the way across its side and did a shotty job of taping it back up, we’re hoping nothing just fell out either. From the Milan-Linate airport, we caught a shuttle to Milan-Malpensa. From that airport, we called our hotel shuttle which then picked us up. Neither of the shuttles gave us a hard time or charged extra for oversize packages! When we finally arrived at our hotel, we stored the boxes safely in our room and then went out to find some much needed food. The desk attendant gave us directions for a pizzeria so we set out. About an hour later we wound up at a restaurant that was absolutely perfect, but closed. So we headed back towards the hotel and then found signs that said the pizzeria was in the opposite direction of the way we had gone. We finally found this pizzeria in the middle of the woods-it was the coolest restaurant we’ve been to so far. Nate ordered a calzone and I had gnocchi, but the menu actually had horse meat on it! Neither of us were quite brave enough for that. After dinner it was finally time to assemble the bike and find directions out of town. It took us until midnight to do both tasks, and Nate discovered that the pump we bought was good for nothing. We would have to inflate two bike tires and our bob trailer tire with one singular CO2 cartridge and hope for the best. The other bad news of the day…we both discovered that we have poison ivy from our trip to the states!!! Hopefully tomorrow has better things in store for us.