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. 

Thursday, March 27: Alachua. Newberry Yoga.

Today we woke up at the Hilton pretty well rested. We decided after asking if there are any breakfast places they listed two waffle 

houses and this other place that we went to that was really wonderful. breakfast place called Terry’s Grill in North Jacksonville. It was only 10 minutes from the hotel. It was a good southern place. They had excellent 

breakfast food. They had grits too and all kinds of different eggs and home fries and hashbrowns, etc. I had a big stack of pancakes, big water, sausage, and a side order egg and it was totally delicious and

 the coffee was pretty good too when we left the place ran to a really nice woman who owned hair salon while she wasn’t the owner but an employee at his hair salon and we talk to her for about half hour yakking it up 

and talking about what Jacksonville looks like etc. and we even talked about the Eagles and the Jaguars. It was very nice. It’s one of my highlights is talking to local people. It’s really 

fun. We then drove for an hour and a half and we just arrived at the Alachua Hampton Inn at 3 o’clock. Now we’re looking for laundromats because this hotel

 does not provide laundry. Laundromat nearby and that was good. This place has an app and looks like it might be a good choice. Then we went to Newberry yoga early and got the lay of the land from

 Kaitlyn and her husband. They give us a grand tour of the facilities. Their house is beautiful and they built it from scratch just like they built the studio from
scratch. They have a whole bunch of land and they did a nice job with it all. The studio has a really nice shower. I mean it’s a luxurious shower. 


They were put time and money in that one. We then went to class with with Shannon and there was three of us, Mary and I another dude where that dude made all these breathing noises and 

that would not fly at HYP for sure but I didn’t want to be non-organic and 

yogurt and make faces at the teacher so I didn’t. But it would not 

fly in any of the teachers at Hot Yoga Philly if she start making all these breathing

 noises and shit. But the class was good. The room was hot as fuck. Anyhow

, afterwards we talked to Kaitlyn and then we headed to a Mexican restaurant

 which happened to be close by and open till 10 o’clock. We almost 

missed dinner. But it was a nice time today. We’re back again for an 830 class tomorrow

 morning so we have to get up very very early. We hope to hit the 
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minerals stream and then hit the laundromat along with the Florida’s favorite supermarket, which I’ve totally forgot the name of.