Good Luck R&G! Watch out for that windy old weather. Life here has been quite pretty. The other day Wakana and I went out well after sunset. It had been cloudy all day. As we topped the hill we could see a band of clear sky low on the horizon. It was blood red, dark red, with the setting sun too low to see. Pretty amazing.

Lately I've been admiring the sword grass as I drive around the island. It has gone to seed with huge feathery white tufts on top of the stalks. The grass grows six to eight feet high and the tufts toss in the wind like horses' manes.

Tomorrow is our last day with the Leopalace crew. They are off to Japan on Wednesday morning. It has been fun but very tiring. The women are mostly cute and the young men are a mixed lot of handsome and homely. I never could figure out what today's women see in the young men I have met in recent years. Maybe it's a dearth of choice.

Have fun in England, Charley. If you see... well, you know what to say to all our friends over there.