Monday, August 10, 2026

Monday, August 10: Back in Philly.

Good Monday to one and all who care about this day of the week. Well, after a smooth flight back, we arrived in terminal at the Philadelphia International Airport and immediately went to catch an Uber back into Mary’s place. During the plane ride, I attempted to put myself to sleep with YouTube videos about sports and Social Security Benefits. Anyhow, we called an Uber pretty quick and as we were arriving to the Dorchester, there was not one but two broken down buses one right before you get to the Dorchester and one as you turn right onto 19th St. That was a quite a phenomenon then we got to Mary’s and she discovered there’s a leak above her bathtub while this is going on, I decided I would unpack and figure out stuff and that’s what I did. I then took like a quick nap of about five minutes because the guys came in from the repair crew and I said well fuck it. I’ll just head to work on adrenaline and coffee for today. It’s only 816. I’m gonna stop and get a coffee on the way to Mike’s. I got the Mike’s and did my customary cleaning, etc. Had a super coffee as well when I got to Mike’s and then I just so I wanted to go to Mary’s for a bit and I had a feeling I would just end up crashing there but that’s exactly what I did. I think I went to sleep around 11 got up around one p.m. beforehand before I got to Mary I had a bathroom emergency and took care of that at the Starbucks. They even had to knock on the bathroom door but I think I’m all right right now at 1:25 PM. Well, I got back and Mike and order a whole bunch of food so I canceled the order for Akira. I had my regular lunch and Mike’s order came in. He ordered a whole bunch of stuff. So I got it upstairs took care of it and now it’s 3:01 PM Mary has a bad headache. I’m gonna go to yoga anyway I believe I have everything I need. At least I think I do. Anyway, it’s now 346. Tina is teaching today at 4 PM. It’s a 75 minute class. I’m thankful for THAT considering mylack of sleep and flying an airplane all weekend and stuff. Well, I went to the class and it was very challenging. I did more than Tina before class. I ran into Linda before Class and quickly told her we have just got back from our trip over the weekend. I haven’t been that wiped out from a class in a while and I was wiped out. I’m glad I went however. Just took a little while to recover. I knew I wanted to eat the samosas and get ready for bed. We watched sideways the movie about two guys going to wine country drinking and getting a hold of our lives. It’s very well done. I enjoyed it seeing it for the second time. 

Sunday, August 09, 2026

Sunday, August 9: Leaving Healdsburg, Flying to Philly no

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.