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[[underlined]] Feb 5 1985 [[/underlined]]. In white pea-soup sky aiming for JFK airport in commuter plan. with 5 or 6 others aboard. Left Boston ~ 1:15, stopped at Providence; no heat, door open on ground. V. cold. I left my sweater home thinking I was heading for Miami & Santiago. Awakened at 2:00 AM to face packing dilemma. 3 bags for sure, but which sweaters, raincoat, etc. Shampoo my tick curls & spent ev. minute to taxi time fussing. 11:30 [[right arrow]] Airport. Along check-in because of extra bag, for which Pan Am demands ^[[& got]] $73.00. Delta flight to JFK is really Ransome airlines. only a bit bigger than [[?]] out of Clear Lake. Got blanket but feet cold .. No time to catch cold now. 2:45 & still winging it.

We did land .. saw Long Is. sound, then JFK. Got off at [[Greek delta symbol]] airlines & found myself trapped -- no entrance to toilets or anything. Took shuttle to PanAm & looked for Jeff's arr. gate. No luck. He had come in > l hr. earlier. Went to Gate 9 - Take off & there we met. I did a lot of writing. Edited Earth. m's ^[[with help from Jeff]] & mailed it to Ashby from JFK. Also postcard to Martha [[Hoson?]]. Flight to Miami + 2 hrs. wait. Now, after dinner, felt well enough to write Research opp. proposal in Miami airport. Mailed that, plus postcards to Tom, [[?]]. At boarding time - 2 [[?]] & 4 men turned up -- from clipper class lounge. 10:45 took off Miami - drinks & dinner & discussion until ~ 1:20. (took no alcohol & felt much better). Put on [[margin]]Feb. 6 [[/margin]]face mask & dozed easily. Woke up hot & thirsty - went back for 2 glasses of ice water. Aroused ~ 5:00 am w brilliant sun in left windows. Clouds thick. Rare views of meandering stream & Plata estuary. Lande3d BA at 9:20 (local time) 7:20 my time. Taking off again ~ 10:30 (Local). Feel pretty good after long night. We did luck it out w seats - window & aisle.