Found some new luggage in the bowels of a half filled flea market in Sanford Florida. In the past I had always attended this carnival atmosphere on Saturdays and Sundays: always busy and crowded and body close with human scent and sweat. Never realized how deserted it was on Friday afternoons. Amazing, since traffic is at its peak in the Sun City on Fridays. Everyone anxious to escape the office doldrums to find happy hours and Disney rides, or beach rentals for relief from the stress and heat .

Someone on a radio talk station mentioned that thousands move to this area every week. The environment is sadly showing the real stress of the situation.

I was one of those thousands twenty years ago that moved here for business and better winters than the 20 below blizzards of upstate New York. Since then the smell of orange blossoms have disappeared, the lakes struggle to breath, new species infest and replace native creatures, aquifers stressed to the max causing more and more sinkholes and pavement additions increase the reflection of heat altering the weather patterns on a local scale.

So I am told that in the time of the bible there were only three million people in the known world. ..in comparison to the 7 billion that now inhabit the planet. And a good portion of them in condos on New Symerna Beach.

So anyways, I have my new luggage and it has a nice handle so I can pull rather than carry me luggage on the long treks between plane and train to get to Brittany.

We received as a bonus on our ticket to Paris…a 2 night stay in London at a posh hotel. So we are looking into what would be the best touristy thing to do for our brief stay.

Any suggestions?

I leave for London first on Tuesday the 28^th of February,2006. Where is Terrie when I need her. All these 2s must mean something.

Taking just the one piece of luggage and 2 carry ons. Minimizing everything. Taking only what will be used. But then that is pretty much the way I live. If it doesn’t fit in me car it is useless. Hoping to move up to a van soon.

Today is Saturday and I have one last day to complete a mural in a church out in Midway. This one is in addition to the Last Supper Mural I painted in the Sanctuary behind the pulpit I will get pics to post later today Just a few more egrets and herons to complete then I can concentrate on finishing my packing.

Having dinner with my oldest daughter and her family this evening to say goodbyes.