Monday March 31: Leaving Alachua

Hi! It’s Monday, March 31, 2025 and the last day in Alachua Florida. We woke up at a custom early time. We had our nice free breakfast at the Hampton Inn. That was anWe had our nice free breakfast at the Hampton Inn. That was a really nice thing to have during this whole trip. We left the hotel around 8 o’clock for our 8:30 AM 60 minute Hot

 Yoga class with Kaitlyn. There were 3️⃣ other students

 with us this time. Today I could tell my body was a little bit exhausted. It was 

a good class. After class, we chatted with Kaitlyn for a little bit and

 also with Shannon. We then left to go check out the hotel and we checked out just in the

 nick of time. They’re gonna give us maybe 10 minute leeway, but

 we got out on time no hassles. We then went to a weird Circle K that had no iced

 tea and weird parking and then we found a Wawa . which had iced tea 

which was really good. They said a parfait and some bananas and now we’re

 back at Hot Yoga Newberry to hang out for a little bit before we leave. Well, we hung out 

at Kaitlyn‘s for a couple hours. Had good conversation and delicious coffee 

 and then she fed us a nice meal. A vegetarian Indian meal it was delicious. That was very

 nice of her to do that. She’s able to do that for us because Arthur agreed to pick up 

one of the kids from preschool. The other child was getting 

up from a nap. We talked about all kinds of topics from drug companies to different

 yoga, studios, etc. She went out of a way to make us feel welcome. 

We left about a half hour later than I originally planned. We left at 3:30 PM instead of 3 PM. We drove the rental car and got here 

in pretty good time. There was no real bad traffic jams the whole way and it’s right in the middle of rush-hour on a Monday. The Rental Car return process

 was very simple. They guided us in the right spot pointed towards the elevator, & it was not a far walk between the Rental Car area and terminal a where we 



were supposed to go. TSA was pretty easy, not sleazy. Mary got each of us a turkey club sandwich which was pretty delicious and a bit dry but very good. 



Then we found out we had to check in our luggage because too many people brought an overhead luggage. We are very lucky

 because it just started to rain as of 709 we are taxi off the runway and we’re going to get ready to lift off. well, we lifted off and had a fairly smooth flight

 with a few bits of turbulence thrown in for good measure. When we landed in Philly, a severe thunderstorm arrived along with us just after we landed. 
We are very lucky that we got our baggage from the carousel, some guy told us that the baggage people stop doing their work when the lightning hits and man work hellacious thunderstorm right now it’s 9:53 PM. 

Sunday, March 30: 8 AM Newberry Yoga

This morning after somewhat restless, sleep where I was hungry in the middle of the night and had to eat two snack bars to get by. Anyhow, I got up 


along with Mary and we got prepared and eat a nice quick breakfast at the hotel. That’s one of the nice things about the hotels that I had a nice

 free breakfast that came along with it. Anyway, we got to class at 8 AM and



 it was taught by Shannon. We were the only two students in the class. She gave us a good attention and gave us some pointers and took pictures of us 

doing poses she took a lot of pictures of us. She took pictures. It made us look really good I think. It was quite stunning to see. It’s very intense

 seeing pictures of my yoga practice from another person’s point
of view. I’m used to looking at myself and getting tips from the teachers.

 Afterwards, we hung out at Shannon’s place and talked for a long time. 

She shared a book A poems written by Yoko. seemed to really 

interesting. We also looked at some Archie had and we got to meet her 2️⃣ cute little

 dogs. Well they’re not little they’re pretty large, but they’re very friendly and 

they took to us very nicely, and Shannon was very pleased by that! We did some little bit of yoga tips as well and talked about where our lives

 are at this current time. She’s in transition. She just moved down here to Florida 5️⃣ weeks ago lives in a really nice apartment right next to the studio 

so that really works for her. She’s going to new ventures as well, 

so I wish her all the luck with all of it. We definitely plan to stay in touch with 

her after we leave Alachua Florida. We then went to the docks of 
coffee shop to get their lemonade and the iced tea. So we hung out here and The sky is just opened up with pouring ass rain. I also got 10 gallons of gas to fill up the tank, which was only

 left with 16 miles left on the tank. Now 2:05 PM the coffee shops closed and they’re asking us 
to go and we will have to go. I have to go out and run it run our asses in the rain I suppose. Well, on the way to the hotel, we decided to stop at New York Pizza plus to escape the monsoon

 rain that we’re getting right now and 2:19 PM. The rain‘s not really supposed

 to stop till about 5:30 or 6 PM so our clean clothes that we got from Shannon

 will have to sit in the car until such time that the rain 
manages to stop. well, the New York style pizza place was kind of strange they were playing Italian operas and then they started playing disco song called disco Inferno. They played that song disco Inferno
 which was very strange interruption. The pizza was delicious. However, 
after we had that pizza we just came back to the 
hotel and totally knocked
 out and took a nice two hour nap and just mellowed out for the rest of the night which is really needed for sure for sure