December 23 - Spangly


Overnight


at


Las


Vegas


International


Airport with Cliff -- great conversations until we give it up for a bit of rest,


before


taking off over the beautiful Mojave,


then magnificent snowbound


Rocky Mountains,



into the


Great Plains,


above


the


Mississippi,


Lakes


Michigan


and


Erie,


eventually


the


Appalachians to touch down in


Philadelphia --


picked up by Sorrel and Bette,


back to the residence where George awaits. 


A bit of late-night geneology -- Johann Christian Philip George (1717, Hachenburg, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany - 1798, Philadelphia, PA) -- and


refreshments, on the 31st day of fall back home... high up 3 to 58 (Las Vegas, 55 / Concordville, 52)...