Hey everyone,

Left Reagan airport an hour ago and am using my T-mobile wifi to just build a journal during this 5 hour trip to Seattle. From there a couple more hours layover until i get back home at midnight. I have tomorrow to recuperate and I'm going to need it.

So how was my trip? It was good. When it wasn't terrible.

I spent two days in Disney with friends and then rented a car for a few days to drive to SW Florida to see my ailing mother.

Lessons I learned:
1. Always double check every surface and every bag of yours and your friends to make sure you're not leaving things behind. Left a cable and charger with my friends in Orlando, and my suitcase lock with my mom. My brain is acting it's age, it seems.
2. I am too old and out of shape to walk Disney anymore. If I go back I'm going to rent an electric scooter for my time there.
3. Start on vitamins and immunization things before you leave. After the heat exhaustion from two days of Disney in the summer, I picked up a head cold I took to my already sick mother. That whole part of the vacation was me being bedridden until it broke today - the day I had to return home.
4. Our friends are precious cargo for our brains and should be treated as such, but the treatment expectations go both ways.
5. Washington DC airport is a perfect match for the current bad-ministration - long, exhausting, vital resources missing (like bathrooms), and too much MAGA crap.
6. 600 dollars to rent a car for four days is terrible. Should have flown and gotten a ride share. Will do that next time.

I did however have an excellent birthday with some great folks. To my Epcoteer gang - you guys rock. <3

I'll see you guys more reliably tomorrow when I finally get home, so have a good rest of the night, ok? See you all soon. ^_^

- Bloovoop