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We're back. We have no luggage. It got to Chicago, but didn't make it out again. The plane was too heavy and they took some off, though they didn't tell us about it.

I feel only slightly worse for the people with frozen fish from their trip to Alaska, all packed and good for "twenty hours." They aren't going to make it.

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We're home safely, happy, and our digestive systems are more or less functioning normally. It make take a day or two for our bodies to re-develop the ability to digest dairy (the body expels those enzymes along with the bad stuff), and I'm wondering if we had salmonella. It lasts a little longer than other forms of food poisoning, and the culprit may well have been a chicken-egg-mayo-potato salad we bought in France on our last day. As long as we don't have various types of recurring symptoms, no lasting harm done.

At any rate, we spent our last few days in Italy in a grand old hotel on Lake Orta, the most western and one of the smaller of the Italian lakes.

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