If You Don't Know Where You're Going...any plane will get you there!

The nice lady seated next to me in the last row of the plane (seats 38 A and 38 B) probably thought I was a little touched in the head (i.e. crazy)!  I alternated between laughing out loud and crying silent single tears as I finally finished reading "The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Real" by Neta Jackson.  It's the third book in a series of seven...so good! (Of course, I still have to find and read the last four in the series, but I am confident Neta will not disappoint!!)  At any rate, I was on my way, quite unexpectedly, to Nashville for a Gala Event--an art auction fundraiser for Point Hope.  I continued wiping the last traces of tears off of my cheeks, very surreptitiously, of course, as the plane landed and taxied down the runway.  The nice lady asked if I was remaining on the plane for the next leg of the journey.   I said, "No" and then, "Oh wait, I don't think so...where is this plane going?"  She told me it was continuing on to Baltimore.  I told her, "Definitely not, then.  I'm headed to Nashville, but I haven't had a chance to even look at my itinerary, so I have no idea which plane I'm catching, I just know it won't be this one." She graciously chuckled.

As we waited for rows 1 through 37 to get off so we could make our way up the aisle, there was opportunity for about a ten minute discussion.  During that time I told her about the reason for my trip and gave her a little information about Point Hope.  She was pretty excited and started to tell me about something her university is involved with...catching rainwater and turning it into drinking water.  She said she wished we had started this conversation sooner, gave me her card and asked me to get in touch when I got back to Seattle.  (I saw from the card that her school is the University of Washington...my Duck husband will needle me about this, but for Point Hope it will be worth it!)  I thought it was very nice of her to overlook my strange behavior and still be willing to assume we could have a normal, informative discussion.  I'm looking forward to it! 

Now, if only I can find a reader board, look for "Departures", note the Nashville flight number, time and location and then make my way through the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport concourses in a timely fashion (allotting time to stop at a Starbucks and purchase my customary "which city have I visited" coffee cup), all I will have to think about is...where in the world am I supposed to go after I actually arrive in Nashville?  Ah well, picky details...