We Made It!

Thank you friends, for your prayers and well wishes!

We made it home in one piece; no security issues, no delayed flights, no missed connections, no lost baggage!  And at the end of it all, my friend Ruth was there to pick us up at the airport at 10:45 at night! Was I ever glad to see her!

(Kel, Ruth Torres says hi.)

My travel anxiety is an odd thing to me.  I know we're going to get there eventually. I know I can handle layovers, etc.  I know a lost bag is not the end of the world. But that's all in my brain.

Physiologically my body (my subconscious?) does NOT like to travel.  I can't sleep the night before... sometimes even two nights if I let myself start thinking about it.  I get a nervous stomach, and then some. :(

And the anxiety goes away in two waves.  Once when we get through security and we are waiting for our flight to board and then a second time when we board the connecting flight.  Guess my body's not so worried about lost baggage. ;)  It's only happened to me once.

Everything seems normal here in NC.  The heater is working. The water is still hot.  Nothing is missing.  The car started this morning.  Now for the yucky part - the unpacking of all the stuff, the trying to get the gardening back under control and the HUGE pile of mail!  I never imagined six weeks of mail would be so heinous.  May I recommend catalogchoice.org to anyone else who gets way too many catalogs and would like to reduce their paper waste.