Our colleagues at USAID have been laid off, and the rest of us at the Embassy are living in the in-between, waiting to see what will happen to us. But before all of this, we booked a vacation--might as well take it. Join us on a cruise of the Mediterranean--me, Jake, Nora, and the Dudebros of Italy.

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