Sunday, August 9: Leaving Healdsburg, Flying to Philly

Good day everybody. Today Mary and I woke up at the Fairview Motel and walked over to the bakery. I forgot the name of it but we weren’t there and it was very delicious. We got a stuffed oatmeal pastry and a thumbprint piece of pastry that Mary really wanted to get. Within waited for an Uber because it was too long of a walk. We really enjoyed that place. We then took the Uber to the plank café with all our bags and stuff and went to the Plane café. They ran out of tortillas so we couldn’t order the same thing that we got before. We went there and it was much less crowded than it was yesterday. After we chow down we quickly got going and walked to Joe and Shelley‘s place. We hung out there for a while. We saw Joe’s daughters who was pregnant and due in October. Anyhow, we hung out at Joe and Charles for a while and mellow it out. Then we called Uber and the Uber took 20 minutes to get a driver then the driver showed up 11 minutes later. Then there was a 15 minute ride to the airport. We got to the airport with 10 minutes left until they started boarding. The TSA was so slow there they didn’t have touchless and there was one couple that had like six bags and thank God they went through we would’ve been up a creek. We then got to TSA. I got picked for them to check out my shoes for any chemicals and Mary got her bag picked because of the Pepto-Bismol, which was very weird, but it was a weird place this little Santa Rosa airport. Then we go on the tarmac and it’s hard to tell where to go so we found out we have to. Mary’s bag had to be left somewhere and we’re supposed to ask them where where to pick it up when we arrive in Phoenix. Very kinky little Plane couldn’t even fit my bag in the overhead so I stuffed my bag underneath unfortunately it passed. It’s an hour and a half flight on this little dinky airplane. We do have about three hour layover so we should be OK in that department. Oh, this, Rinky didn’t airplane has no working charger. It’s there, but it doesn’t work. My phone will die during this flight to Phoenix. We have three hours in Phoenix though. well, we arrived in Phoenix and we had to wait for Mary’s luggage and they are outside is really hot there in Phoenix. Anyway, we grabbed a bite to eat overpriced burritos and salsa and chips. We did eventually found a place to charge our phones because both our phones were dying. We got about a half hour till the plane boards so that’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna sit here and get ready for planes to board. I forgot to mention that 3️⃣ out of our 4️⃣ rides with Uber, we were driven by the same exact guy. It was quite phenomenal that way. We’re sitting here in Phoenix. Everything’s closed here for food in this airport as of 9 o’clock. Well, it’s 9:11 PM and we just found out that our flights delayed because they can’t land the airplane due to the dust storm that’s ripping through Phoenix right now more fun in the airport with this rinky-dink airport hooray. well, we got an announcement that due to the dust storms. The one Plane that was supposed to come here went straight to Vegas. They then told us to move from B6 a 22 they started to board the airline at 10:05 PM and we’re about to board now. We have an AI machine now telling people when the board they couldn’t get a human to do it unfortunately. Well, they were going through the first couple groups real fast and now they seem to have gone to a ground hall probably because people have trouble putting their luggage above their heads. I don’t know it’s 10:14 PM now.

Saturday, August 8: A Day in Healdsburg CA

Mary & I woke up this morning after a nice sleep at 10:45 AM. We’re both very groggy so we decided to take a shower in the shower felt really good. We got stuff prepared and thought about stuff. Then we called Uber and they took about 11 minutes, but they delivered us to the plank Coffee and we got here and the guy was really pleasant and the coffee says as good as I remember, I bought myself a T-shirt and indulged in all kinds of banana and special fresh squeeze dough. I was on vacation as they say vacation food activated! The food hit the spot and the coffee is good. It’s at 11:42 AM. I’ll after breakfast we decided we take a walk to downtown Healdsburg and we saw that the farmers market was already closed and it was only 1 PM. I’m guessing they shut down at noon. We then decided to check out a couple stores see if they had suitcases with handles at work. We ended up at the Goodwill. They had a suitcase with rolling wheels for 10 bucks a little dirty inside but the wheels work the other one was a red one and that had wheels that didn’t work very well. I saw an old Guy Lombardo six album set that my parents had on sale at the Goodwill. That was great and there’s another album the best of viral eye which I think I’m gonna give to Mike for a Christmas present because I think he got a kick out of it. We then went to CVS and all their beverages are warm in the refrigerator. Smells like rotten milk anyhow went through. We’re gonna head to Joe and Shelly’s place now it’s 2:19 PM. Well, channel 3:49 PM we just finished hanging out with Joan and Shelly. They treated us to lunch and we talked and that was nice. We’re going to head back to our place. We in downtown Hesburgh at the CVS with the grossest refrigerator ever and then we’re going to probably Uber the rest of Away. well, relaxed at the hotel and that was nice. Got things a little bit organized and then we called the Uber to take us to where the event was taking place called something landing. That was a nice place. It has wine stores all around. We ended an hour of I think it was vinyasa Yoga. We did planks and other stuff like that. That was a pretty good class and then After Work a band came on and started playing music and dance a little bit and then we decided we want to eat so we had some paella from Mexico. It was very good. Didn’t we went inside this place child down and talked about old restaurant like Troy‘s in West philly at the Wawa at Ron in Walnut. I put something on the crawlers about the event. It is now 8:48 PM and my goodness temperature dropped 15° since we were outside. I don’t think I really wanna walk. I think I wanna just take an Uber and get back to two twice. It was a good time. We got some good swag and everything. Well after we got her Mexican food we really enjoyed just talking as I said before. Joe wrote where the fuck are you guys.“ And we told me we’re taking an Uber back primarily cause it’s 64° and 64° feels very cool when you’ve been walking around and 88° temperature with low humidity. And I’m glad we got back early. No reason to stay up late that’s one good thing about being sober that you don’t get this idea that you should stay up late because you’re all buzzed down and shit. Plus, we can just relax and stuff for a while. We’re flying out tomorrow around a little after 4 PM tomorrow so we’re gonna do go to a bakery and then go to plank and then visit Joe and Shelly and then go to Santa Rosa airport. Yes, and I feel like I did get some sun even though I had a hat on. It was pretty intense sunlight today. Right now it’s 10 o’clock and I’m gonna get ready to take a nice shower so I don’t have to shower tomorrow morning. Let’s hope the plane ride from California back to Philly will be smoother than the one getting here. That’s all we can hope.