Florida is GREAT...

[EB-Z]

Day 1 & 2: Sat/Sun. Arrive Heathrow airport, London on 17 day business trip around England. Weather beautiful.. tour around london eat bland tastless food, drink cool flat beer. fall asleep around 10pm (5 pm florida), wake up 6 am (1 am fla.).
Days 3-7: Mon/Fri. Take Underground Tube to Kings Cross with 100 lbs of luggage starring at what has to be an 80's gang from the New York subway system (yellow, orange, and blue spiked hair, tatoo's of weird things on all exposed skin). Attend conference all week, eating bland food and drinking cool, flat beer in the evenings......except Wed. night..was taken for Thia? food after telling locals that their food was bland. Drank lots of cool flat beer to stop the fiery sensation from inside and spent half of thurs. in bathroom.
Day 8: Sat. Weather beautiful, invited to a Lord's estate for some Pheasant and duck hunting. Shot 9 birds and gave them to the poor villagers that spent the day doing what a dog does in the US, beating the bushes to drive the birds to several rich people sitting in chairs (drinking cool flat beer) waiting for the villagers to reach them.
Day 9: Sun. Overcast, 55 F. get invited to go fly fishing for trout on private stream. Catch one fish in 4 hours, return to guests home for cool flat beer and bland food.
Day 10: Mon. (today). return to conferences in Peterborough until thursday night. Ate bland food for lunch. going for Indian cuisine tonight. Will drink lots of cool beer and spend tomorrow in bathroom waiting for lunch and the bland food again...
Florida (and the US in general) is GREAT!
Really missing home and the Vette,
Will keep you posted if I can ever get the phone line to dial up the internet again....

Chuck