Monday

Ok, flying is a chore no matter how you do it. Today they weighed Jim's and my carryons and we were the only ones picked. we were under on the suitcases but the carryons were over so they made us ship one through. So we basically never know what they are going to do. we saw all sorts of people with much bigger and heavier stuff than we had....oh well. I have the computer in my backpack and it is true, that the backpack has filled out with each trip....but they want us to help the economy and you have to put it somewhere! Tomorrow is an international flight so hopefully, they will be a little more lenient but we have a LOT of flights and 2 1/2 more weeks of travel....sigh.

But we have just crashed since we got to the hotel and I am repacking and we took naps and it has felt good to not have big meals or anything we had to do. We have to wake up at 3AM to catch the plane so it will be an early night for us. Almost everyone on this pre-trip is also going on the post trip so we are happy about that as well. It is a very congenial group. We are all glad to be back down to normal altitude and think most of us are feeling like any breathing problems are over. You surely do feel the high altitude.

We have taken no photos today as it was just a travel day and nothing really new.