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them. After some formation he left me & them out the "yellow door"; no inspection. One of the entertaining sights of the area was a big black sniffer-dog walking about the baggage and conveyor belts. I didn't see it locate anything. I wonder what it would do. 
And early [[flap?]] was finding Clarke. Both Medivac patients were ready to be taken out of the terminal, but he was nowhere to be seen. Finally, he appeared & assured me my tote bad was outside -- & so it was. The other patient got a surfboard from the checked baggage. He was not a USARP man at all, but a crewman on The Glacier (icebreaker). He had surfed all the stops going south & hoped to do so going north. But no longer.
The USARP depot manager & Margaret [[Lanzon??}} both had care to carry me to the clothing issue place. Much activity as great heaps of used clothing were pile on the floor. 
I finally got mine in the anteroom along with my suitcase & empty blue bag. 
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It was a genuine rat race trying to [[?]] & their packs. Took me a long time. As it was I came up missing my earband suspender, one mitten &  pr. of leather gloves (1)
They handed me my flight schedule home with the note that extra foot room was requested on Air N.Z. & Pan Am flights. (They knew I had a broken leg) Nevertheless, in the same handwriting I was assigned to the crumby old, inconvenient Hotel Croyden downtown --  which serves no meals except breakfast. I couldn't face that. I wanted the White Heron where I could have a decent motel-type room & dinner. John Spletsloener told me he had just changed his hotel (via [[Faryan?]]) so I asked the manager to ^[[call her to]] do the same for me. He did so, then drove me to the White Heron. How lovely to be in my own room alone. 
At dinner I found Spletsloener, Kyle & an Irishman dining & they invited me to join them. It wsa great fun. A "porterhouse" steak, grilled tomatoes, Swiss chard ([[plus minus]]), a pavlova, sweet white wine. 
A difficult night. Leg ached terribly in cast. Feet swollen &, in places, raw.