Alive and mostly well

We returned from the traveling portion of our trip very early in the morning on June 15. I felt like I should write about that before continuing but it is mostly a blur and I was exhausted and didn't feel well much of the time. It was just too much traveling and activity and not enough rest. For me anyway. I guess I can't speak for the rest of the group. I think the young people handled it okay but us older people needed more rest.

Anyway, I fear I have lost all of my faithful readers because of the absence but I will try to slowly catch you back up if anyone is still reading. We are almost at the end of the trip now. Tomorrow is another free day. Or, a mostly free day. Our schedule says that it is free but I found out a few hours ago that we are to meet at 5:50 so that we can have a farewell dinner. The dinner was originally scheduled for Sunday but I have learned that if there is a schedule it is subject to change. We usually just don't have a lot of details about the schedule.

I was planning to spend the day with Jing, my graduate assistant at ETSU, tomorrow and finish up last minute shopping. She is coming here to meet me at 10:00 a.m. so I guess we will still spend much of the day together. I fear that she had made plans. If she has gone to any trouble I will probably just skip the dinner. She and I had planned our time together a long time ago so I think it will take precedent over a changed dinner schedule.

Sunday was supposed to be our packing day and then farewell dinner. I guess it is now just a packing day and any last-minute shopping or other things day. I did some preliminary packing today and am afraid that I may need to buy another bag. Just a duffle type bag should be fine. I think I can almost make it now but was planning to bring back candy and stuff with the money left on my debit card for the school store. A larger bag will just make it less stressful to get everything I want and not sacrifice some of the packaging to protect my priceless valuables.

I will write more later. I napped today and am not feeling tired but need to be getting normal amounts of sleep.