And just like that – the adventure is over.
You may recall that our original plan for yesterday was to drive to the Tampa area and sightsee and have a leisurely lunch before dropping me at the airport for the flight home to California. This, despite the fact that “B” was coming down with a cold. I had had concerns, because I thought it might be detrimental to his recovery of his cold to schlep around, but he, the ultimate gracious host, discounted it. Well, after all, it didn’t turn out that way anyway.
At perhaps 5:00am “N” received a call from her sister in England (her name would be “D”, if you’re really enjoying the letter designations I’ve been using) saying that their mom was having a major health issue.
Nothing was definite however so we spent much of the morning quietly at home waiting for phone calls. During this interlude “H” showed me how to make big, fluffy pom-poms so I could put one on my luggage; making it more easy to identify on the airport carousel. It was simple and fun so I made one for my luggage and one for “N”s. At last the call came through that mom (or, "M2", if you want...) was doing better and things could continue as before. Whew!
Finally we had a light lunch and set out for Tampa which is about an hour and a half from the Villages. Well, you can’t see much of an area from a typical turnpike – just the road and the trees lining it so I can’t really tell you what the land between the Villages and Tampa looks like.
So at last I was dropped off at the airport and spent the rest of the day (until about 9:30pm) either in the air or at an airport. How wonderful it was to see Al drive up to bring me home again! Travel is fun but getting home again is really the icing on the cake!
Oh yeah, and the birds put up quite a vocal welcome when I walked in the door – I guess they were glad to see me, too!
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