Hurricane Ida is on her way.
I have booked into the Hostel for 2 more nights and rain is forecast on both. A tropical storm they said. Then a hurricane was anounced. Still, it sounds like heavy rain only and no one seems to be too worried. If there was real trouble coming these people would be packing up and flying to Idaho before you could say pineapple.
Round 2 with Standard Bank is on and is a longer and more drawn out battle than the first. They feel they should wait 40 days to see if they really have overcharged me or not. Meanwhile I'm missing $500 and they're not really concerned. Consequently chances are good that I'll be taking the Amtrak train from New Orleans back up to New York City this Wednesday @ 7am and arriving at Penn Station on Thursday @ 2pm.
Acceptance is starting to dawn, the inevitability of it all. No matter how much I want to stay I really can't and I found myself wandering around the French Quarter today with a smile on my face, taking it all in, appreciating every second.
It's still summer in Cape Town, it's even December. I haven't changed my flight yet but at this rate I'll be back by the end of November or beginning of December. I'll be in time for the yearly Obz fest, for Christmas and New Year, the beach and the sea. A chance to start over, whatever that may mean to me by the time I get there.
It really doesn't matter anymore.
Now don't you DARE darlin!!!! If there is one place in that whole there United States where you are supposed to have an epiphony, it's in New Orleans... It's as between worlds as you are. Decide what you want and you'll get it!
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Thanks for the advice me darlin! Ag man, al wat dit beteken is dat ek 2 weke vroeer tuis is as wat ek sou wees. Sal maar kyk wat gebeur maar jy is reg: N.O is 'n goeie plek om 'n epiphany te he!
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