We are in Florida - one week to go

It's Thursday evening in Groveland, Florida, about a week before we start home with the Phoenix, our new touring motorglider.

There's a limit to how much the plane can bring back, so even though it's going to be at least a three week, and maybe a four week trip, we pared our luggage down as much as possible:

• A carry-on (mostly clothing) for each of us
• two smaller personal bags with the usual necessities (tickets, prescription meds, iPads and Kindles, cameras, etc)
• one checked bag with the things we'll need in the Phoenix (portable aviation transceiver, non-polarized sunglasses, cables to charge cell phones and iPads in flight, a multimeter to trace any electrical problems, oximeter, and so on)

It was a bit of a grunt getting here, getting up at 3:45 AM, then 14 hours of travel from Richland - San Francisco - Chicago - Orlando, and finally getting to the Orlando motel at 11:50 pm. The morning found the motel overwhelmed by people getting breakfast (how can that be surprise?), but we got some ceral and coffee, then back to airport for a rental car, and off to see our friends in Orlando.

By evening, we were comfortably settled in their motorhome at their nearly completed home on Lake Lucy in Groveland, and our rythyms began to return to normal