THE WIRELESS SPOT

 

( Early this morning)  

Traveling together we experience the realities of the journey….the good and the bad. Right now we are experiencing a little turbulence. You can interpret that as meaning the dinner meal will be delayed if not missed  entirely. We might not even get dinner or the opportunity to guess what the mystery meat is. The worst part is the delicious Azorean wines they provide as a complimentary beverage in drinking glass size portions are delayed. 

This bumpy environment if your trying to type can cause motion sickness…not happening yet but it’s a possibility. I wish I had taken the advice of a traveling friend, who told me years ago how to prevent air sickness. 

She read an article in some women magazine or just made it up….I’m not sure which. What you do is, place your bare foot on top of a brown paper bag. Then trace around it. Cut the shape of each foot out of the paper and place it inside the shoes your wearing on the airplane. Supposedly that pulls the vertigo out of your body through the bottom of your feet….like sucks up the poison that has been circulating.

This handy piece of advice was provided as an after thought as we were boarding a flight. But it lacked credibility because she was wearing sandals and I could see no brown paper sticking out between her toes. When I mentioned to her that she was not traveling with paper in her shoes her creative response was she was using the other more discrete method. “Well, What’s that one?”, I asked. “Oh she said, I dip a cotton ball in baby power and then place it in my navel. Works every time!” At the moment I would be tempted to try that. 

( 5:32 pm in hotel lobby)

Within 40 minutes of writing this the turbulence ended and dinner was served. It was delicious and the mystery meat you were eating was actually beef tongue. Tender, moist and melts in your mouth. If I had not told you what it was you would have asked for seconds.

The wireless is weak in my room so this update is being done in a corner of the hotel lobby. Beautiful hotel in the center of this town. It has an enormous private garden….multiple acres with walking paths, fountains and blooming trees and flowers. It is windy this afternoon and a bit chilly. Tomorrow we will spend time there and add multiple pictures. The hotel room balcony faces the garden and when I open the slider I can hear the birds. A lovely setting to welcome Easter Sunday.