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The Road to Romania
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   Tiger Lilly and the Reverend Mother left for Romania yesterday morning
   though it will be a few more days before they actually leave the
   country since they have to undergo some training and orientation at
   the Global Expedition headquarters in Garden City, Texas, including
   meeting the other members of the group.
   The Mall Diva and I got up at 3:30 Friday morning to take them to the
   airport for their 5:30 a.m. flight. RM and TL were up well before that
   (if, indeed, they slept at all the night before leaving). Just about
   everything was packed and loaded into the car the night before,
   including two fully-stuffed suitcases so heavy I seriously wondered
   how they were going to manage these without me. A lot of the weight
   and space is taken up by bedding that they have to bring along and
   which will ultimately be left behind at some point. I'm not sure why a
   5:30 a.m. flight was necessary and apparently neither was Continental
   Airlines because they ended up canceling the flight after we dropped
   the missionaries off. They were ultimately delayed only a couple of
   hours before getting on their way, but it would have been nice to have
   spent those hours in bed.
   Driving home from the airport the Mall Diva said, "Let's go to
   breakfast!" That sounded like a good idea for, oh, three or four
   seconds, but my eyes felt so gritty I said I just wanted to go back to
   bed. To my surprise I was actually able to go back to sleep and when I
   got up we did go out. I'm always amazed at how much Eggs Benedict and
   hash browns the Diva can put into her tiny frame. There wasn't any
   rest for the travelers, however, who still had a two-hour drive from
   the Dallas airport to get to their destination. At one point the
   Reverend Mother had to pull over on a quiet road to try and take a
   20-minute nap.
   No such luck. After about five minutes a truck stopped to see if they
   needed any help. The situation was explained and the truck drove off.
   Two minutes later another truck slowed for the same purpose and was
   waved off. Nice, friendly people those Texans. Fortunately the ladies
   arrived safely and Tiger Lilly emailed me the details. Their luggage
   was so full that in the end they decided not to take the laptop along,
   but they will be sending updates and/or posting from wherever they can
   find access in Texas and Oradea, Romania (which supposedly has
   numerous internet cafes).