The exciting news from LGA

So, I'm at the airport again, this time at LaGuardia.   My dad made sure I was here nice and early to avoid any airport chaos, and here I am again, with a decent amount of time to kill.  Two more planes....and then I'll be in Vancouver.  I'm looking forward to being at one place, being at  and in the closest thing I have to a *home,* with my bed and my things.    It'll be nice not to travel fora while....though I think I will be in California at Margaret's wedding in October?  Anyway, until then, my plan is to be a homebody in a state of semi-hibernation.  Please, however, do call me up for a movie, a dinner (especially for Asian food), a game of cards....

Well, uh, there is actually no exciting news to report from LaGuardia.  I'm sitting with Betsy's generously loaned Green hiking backpack, featured in Friend or Foe?...thanks to Heather's advice, it didn't make it with me to Europe---and I am so glad about that.  With this small green child on my back in the disgusting heat of Rome, I'm pretty sure I would have wanted to die.    Now that I think about it, it has made all my North American side trips, and today, the small green child is my company to Chicago and then to Vancouver.