There and Back Again A journey to India with a short stop on the way in England. The trip to India is for a combination of spiritual pursuits and volunteer medical work

We did get away from home for the drive to Raleigh on Saturday morning a bit later than the stated departure time, but before our required departure time. This was good as we were facing two unseen delays. The first added about 10 minutes due to roadwork between Chapel Hill and Durham. The second was to have effects for days. Lucca, Dee’s older therapy dog, got ‘ansy’ during the last half hour of the trip to the house in Raleigh where he and Harris are staying during Dee’s absence. This is quite unusual. He is normally so even mannered and travels very well. Our questions were answered as soon as we arrived, he had diarrhea! It did not amount to much, but was clearly there. None-the-less, after a half hour walk he seemed to be behaving normally and had not had to go for about 20 minutes, so off we rushed to Dee’s sister’s house so she could take us to the airport and keep the car at her house and avoid parking charges at the airport. Fortunately she had already been to the airport that morning and knew that there were major delays on the normal route due to construction but she knew a very effective back route. We got to the airport without a problem and saved a great deal of time and effort by checking in four bags at the curb. Now three of these are mine and all are at the 50 lb weight limit due to the time I’ll be in India requested items from friends there. The rest of our travel to Newark was without significance and we arrived at our hotel with only a desire to rest for an hour or two before going into New York City for the evening.