Anyway...in reality it is early in the morning and the dog just came in to say good morning and everyone else is asleep, except for Annie doing yoga on the floor and she is covered in the dappled light coming through the leaves of the tree of our Treehouse, which I am leaving this evening for Iceland (then Lativa, Estonia, Finland, and Russia). I kept a blog in India and rather enjoyed it, so I'm giving it another shot this August to keep posted those who are interested and at the very least to let them know I am still alive. Lots to do today and this cup of coffee is done (and Stephan is now awake) so I must run, but stay tuned in because I promise I'll have interesting things to say, otherwise what would be the point of this trip and the all months of preparing and saving I have done? Farewell New York!

On the eve of the next great adventure, i find myself thingking of Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, wisest woman in Europe, and her wicked pack of cards. I don't know what brought her to mind, but those verses have been running through my head and pehaps it's because I'm hoping to find her somewhere on my travels. I'm convinced she's not in London, but farther east, farther north....Unreal city. I will find her, the wisest woman in Europe, and she will read my cards, and mine will not be the drowned Phoenician Sailor but The lady of situations.