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Day 11: Leaving On A Jet Plane!

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As this final blog post is being written, we are all sitting comfortably at 35,000 feet on the fourth and final leg of our epic adventure. After our final breakfast together at the hotel in San Jose we loaded up the bus and spent our last bus ride to the airport playing the hits - singing show tunes ("One Last Time" from Hamilton, specifically), Bohemian Rhapsody, chanting "Ivan! Ivan! Ivan!" and taking in the last few glimpses of the mountains. After an emotional goodbye to Luigi and Ivan we made it to our gate via some duty free window shopping. Upon landing in Fort Lauderdale we were told the Passport Control line was too backed up so we sat in the plane for an extra 20 minutes, which then had us "New York Sidewalk" walking to our gate. After 2 hours of waiting in various lines and a gate change we made it just in time to board our final flight back to Hartford.  This trip has been jam packed with learning, adventure, human connection, amazing food, bus...