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  Herndon, Virginia
Monday, January 12, 2009

Well,  here I am in front of the old computer screen.  The curtains of my room opened slightly.  A slightly cloudy and cold day.  Naked trees.  A lot done today so far.  Decided on which shoes and which camera to take.  That was a biggie.  I had been wondering about it for weeks.  I am 1.6 pounds overweight in my carryon so will just stuff things in my pocket at check-in.  We're only allowed 15.4 pounds and that seems to be the weight of just all the "can't-afford-to-be-thrown-around-by-baggage-handlers" items.  Now the big bag needs packing and I should probably do another long elden before I go(what I call the run up to Elden Street and back).

I've spent alot of time doing idiotic things like going through 5 Ozric Tentacles cd's looking for reggae dance tunes for WatsuGoa Dance (volumes one and two) and staring into rooms I've just entered trying to remember what I was supposed to do in them (probably half of the day). Watching "The Sleeping Dictionary" for the 4th time.

I've had really wonderful phone calls from my family.  Thanks Suzanne!  Thanks Mom and Dad! I decided to change my travelpod email address for security reasons.  It's a little daunting making public so much about yourself.  The real purpose of this blog is to keep family and friends up on what is happening on the trip.  Also my future self. And to share photos.  Susan will be so proud (I'm taking the 40D--even its extra pound and a half; yeah, I guess that WOULD solve the weight problem.  Imagine that.  Is this a parentheses foul? I think a lot of my thinking is parenthetical.....and eliptical.)  Another travelpod note--answering emails is a difficulty in India which is one of the reasons I'm writing this travelogue.  When you go into cybercafes there you sometimes have very little time--both because of your situation that day but also because the computers are often breaking down and very frequent and
unexpected power cuts.  So please know I appreciate your emails but if I don't answer please consider my travelpod entries to be my answers.

Yesterday I was in meditation class and staring into a large winter forest--the flood plain of a creek.  The bottom of the view is little tan almost yellow color--debri from floods and the top is a reddish brown--fallen leaves.  Then in exactly the spot I am looking at suddenly a white tail flickers.  And a deer emerges out of the leaves where there had only been leaves before.  When she tucked her tail again she completely disappeared.  I was looking intently right at her but she wasn't there!  Then,  BAM--she is visible.  Wow.  Very cool.  But it made me wonder about the design feature--a self-betraying beacon.  How odd.  I'm sure scientists have some bizarre explanation for it--but how could it promote survival?  Even if there's an answer of sorts--it still is a question.

So many unexpected things this past week.  The carpet from F.  The unexpected turn to the phone call with Suzanne. The painful knees gymnastics Sunday morning that actually made my legs feel better.  As well as the amazing pain in my legs both when K. was stretchig them in Thai massage and when M. was using her heels on them in her as yet unnamed walking-on-you treatment.  (thank yous to both)  Today my feet have almost normal sensation (I like the double meaning there).

So I must finish up packing and running and all.  It is off to Berlin and God knows what.  After a final meal of beef and C.'s last Ritter Sport bar.  I will miss my bed and certainly the conveniences here.  But most of all I will miss the dreaded third part of the March Forward! (ha ha ha)  (that was the knee torture).

More later,  in the world.

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