Richard and I are becoming expert packers. We can pack up all our belongings and stuff them into our giants, but still tight-quartered, backpacks with ease now. Almost like carnival vendors moving from town to town, folding up their tents. Made sure we had everything, went downstairs to barely beat the 11am checkout. Erin was downstairs, and although the skies were looking gray and potentially wet, she decided to come to Pisa with us. We got to the station and found a train heading to Pisa that left in, oh, about 3 minutes, so we bought our tickets at the self-service machine, and ran to the train. Richard and I had our backpacks on our backs and daypacks strapped to our chests, we looked like soldiers from the year 2010. Made the train fortunately and
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