{"id":163,"date":"2020-03-21T13:40:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffcurto.com\/stuckintuscany\/?p=163"},"modified":"2020-03-21T13:44:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T13:44:37","slug":"out-of-the-frying-pan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffcurto.com\/stuckintuscany\/out-of-the-frying-pan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuori dalla Padella (Out of the Frying Pan)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
On Thursday, March 19, the U.S. State Department raised the travel advisory to Level 4 – their highest warning. The statement on their website is: \u201cU.S. citizens who live in the United States should arrange for\u00a0immediate return to the United States, unless they are prepared to remain abroad for an indefinite period.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While we love our adopted second country, as an Italian friend, recently returned from the U.S. said, “It’s time to be where we officially belong.” we know that we can’t be here for “an indefinite period,” so we have made the difficult decision to leave Cortona and head home to the United States. We fly out of Rome on Monday, March 23 and should be back in our home in southern Wisconsin by late Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Going from an environment where, if we went to the grocery store, we might see or interact with four or five people to navigating through three airports and being with hundreds, if not thousands of other people is certainly a bit daunting. Combine those fears, with what we see happening in the U.S. as the virus spreads and infection rates grow there, we feel as though we are stepping out of the frying pan and into the fire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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