Commodore Inn The Grove Coconut Grove

... Beach. Check in wasn't until 3:00 so we had some time to kill. Humm what should we do?? Exactly pull over and go for a swim, and that just what we did. We stopped at Hollywood beach and spent a few hours taking in one more beach before we all had to say good bye to Florida. 3 o'clock rolled around so we made our way to the Hotel, unloaded our things, made some road soda ...

Cruised into Ft Lauderdale early Sat morning. From here we transfered to the airport for our flight back home to San Francisco. We got to the Airport around 10 am and our flight didn't leave till 4 pm. Arrived to San Fanncisco around 9 pm. Loong day but happy to be home.

Or was it??

Snitch flew down & met me at our hotel, which is where we have stayed for 3 days.... the decisions we had to make:

When to go down to the pool
Which bed to sleep on
When to turn over
When to go for a swim
When to have a cocktail...

It has taken some serious thought!! Just in case you can't picture it I've added some of my own!

Missing you all...

xx

... of it. My fear only seems to get worse the more I fly, but the relief when we touched down in a wet and windy Chicago three hours later was incredible and it felt amazing. It was about 10am and we realised that we hadn't even had time to contact our hotel and that they weren't expecting us until the next day! Fortunately, we telephoned them and they were able to bring our reservation forward and could also provide us with an early check-in. We couldn't wait to get ...

... labelled as tote! We knew our 3 bedroom house in Foxboro was a lot bigger than our new place and were concerned everything would not fit in the new place, but to our surprise it ended up being about right. We could have done with a little larger storage area as everything is a bit packed in there, but it shouldn't be a big issue as most of the stuff in there won't come out too often. For example we're not going to have too much need for a mountaineers Patagonia down jacket ...

... better that the top loaders we always had in the USA. It turns out in general they are smaller but more efficient for their size, I haven't really noticed them working better though. We decided to pass on a tumble drier, we figured there would be not too much need for them given that the temps never get below 30C all year round! We had actually checked out some yard sales the week earlier, we got there sometime before 9am and all that seemed to be left were the ...

After a few days of sleeping and general bed rest, I went with Shiloh and friends to the King Mango Strut in Coconut Grove on Dec 30. About 26 years ago, some local people were told that the couldn't march in the Orange Bowl Parade because their instruments were not suitable (kazoos). So what are some reject parade marchers to do - why start their own parade of course. Parade is totally without money and some may say lacking in taste, but they do have a sense of ...

We have completed staging, although Ginnie chose to spend a portion of her training time in the emergency room - yep, she got sick even before getting out of the country (what are the odds?)! We're both doing fine now and excited to get on the plane in the morning to fly out to Belize. One tiny snag is that Ginnie will need to get a final medical clearance before we check out at 4:30 am (yikes is it really that early!) for our 10 ...

... hurahti about 5 tunnissa. Hirveällä säkällä vetelin liittymistä ja rampeista juuri oikeaan suuntaan ja suoraan National vuokraamon pihaan Miamissa :-) Don't try this at home, ei ollut nimittäin edes karttaa mukana! :-) Sen verran oli kuuma ilma, että täytyi pitää auton ilmastointia päällä koko matka, ja se on totaalista myrkkyä minulle! Nyt onkin kurkku mukavan kipeä, mutta eiköhän se siitä... Lentokentältä piti sitten tuttuun tapaan saada ...

... is for volunteer. I will be sworn in as a volunteer after my 3 months of training! I'll be missing all of you while away and thinking of home often! So, whenever you are enjoying sushi, In and Out, fresh fruits and clean water, please think of me! Also, when driving to the grocery store, the movies, or to buy a new pair of great jeans, imagine me trucking it down one of many dirt roads on my way to work, a meeting, una ...