Heading out

I am not sure ever how to react to the day I head out on another trip. When my departure is morning to midday – all of my organizing needs to be done the day before. When it is an evening/late night departure the feeling is quite different.

Early in the morning the whole day stretches ahead of me. Plenty of time to do a bit of this, and some of that. This time I haven’t left everything till the last minute. I organized all the “go, ing to be dropped off with other people” things a few days ago. This morning I attempted to stuff everything into a collapsable duffle bag and discovered that, in my enthusiasm to “share” I needed to go up a size on the duffle… Oh well- no big deal. I had planned on checking it anyway.

Did I mention that this flight is a red-eye? When I looked at getting from home to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area I had one main goal – no flight changes. As it turns out, duh, going east from here is 5+ hours of flight time in addition to the three hours of time zone change. A lost day completely when you add in transpiration to the airport and waiting time.

And, as it also should be no surprise, you can’t fly direct from OAK which put me into looking at flights out of SFO. Which left me with the red-eye…. Oh well. I will get on the plane about 2330 and go to sleep (I am tired) and will get off cranky and head directly to coffee in FLL.

I have clothes for the transAtlantic crossings. I have $$, Euros and Pounds Sterling. I have  yarn, cross-stitch, audiobooks, several book apps. I should be completely set.

I finished Part 3 of the StarWoman Barbara Ana SAL. but failed to take a picture…..