**footnotes**

1. ¹ There was one time during this entire escapade I actually used any drugs (save for nicotine - it's hard not to when it's so social!): during my time in the Milano piazza, juggling & laying in the sun while waiting for the train to Venezia (about which you can read in while you can change the country... Any other reference to any form of drug use was purely me just trying to be funny.