1. Old people wear funny hats.

2. It’s good to be alive.

3. My brain doesn’t appreciate a good ship tilt.

4. I’m glad Sam had some extra anti-nausea meds.

5. It doesn’t matter the generation –  people are people and there are cranky young people and there are old people who drink too much and wear too little and there are young people who talk about every ailment that afflicts them, and ya gotta love ’em all, no exceptions.

6. My hair does not like ocean air, but my soul is loving every minute of this.

7. And it is good to have new frwinds from Wisconsin and Australia and Los Angeles and Houston and Sylvan Lake, Michigan, and Indonesia, and it is good to know we have many more opportunities to make even more friends over the next week and a half.