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I'm in Gainesville Florida right now. I am staying in a place of unaccustomed luxury. My father is in the hospital here, in fairly nasty shape.

In my life I am fairly spontaneous, I was not sure whether to go to Jacksonville or Orlando, then reading things I discovered that Gainesville has an airport and is only 45 minutes from where my father lives. The fare was cheaper too. So I went with it.
I left St. Louis at an early hour, landed in Miami, and since my connecting flight was a different airline, I had to go through security again. The T.S.A. people really do their best NOT to make it any more miserable than it has to be, all you have to do is cooperate and I always thank them. I don't envy them their job.

Gainesville is very pretty, also much more humid than I'm used to. This is a very fancy hotel, it's owned by someone Indian. The room service here is wonderful. Someone from the desk called my room to reccomend a good Indian buffet, I hadn't mentioned a liking for any particular form of food, so I don't know how they guessed I love Indian food.
Might be the nose ring! :).

Anyway I'm here a few days. I'll decide later today about my onward journey to Ireland. I'm probably going to use Aer Lingus out of Orlando. It seems to be cheaper to leave by way of Orlando than by way of Jacksonville.

Yesterday's flight took me through a small tornado. It was a tiny bit choppy, but I was alright.

The flight was not full, only 3 or 4 people on it.

I like the St. Louis airport a lot better than I like the Miami one. Mostly it's a matter of the foood situation. St. Louis has better food. I have basically enjoyed this trip though. So far so good. Off to see about doing laundry, I will be seeing my dad again later.