Leaving Florida. One great hing about the Fort Lauderdale airport is the free internet access. All wireless and fast. The good way of dealing with this. Laguardia airport is filled with new centrino stickers, promising the new great thing, this new wireless thing, but when I opened my browser all I saw was an open electronic hand waiting for me to pay.
The cab driver was incredibly nice. He spoke of the Florida that used to be here, the florida that had oaks and hummingbirds. He also said that he would not shop at aventura mall, remember the place where I was not allowed to take pictures? He said that he saw with his own eyes how thousands of flamingoes and racoons were rounded up and buried alive when he was a child. A chilling image. He claimed that most of the "nature" that is now left in Miami beach was introduced here to make it all look nice.
Leaving Florida. Watching the sky through the window of the airport. The sunsets are beautiful now. They will probably become even more beautiful in the months to come, as the particles of burning liquids and solids will travel high into the atmosphere. It is so hard not to think about what is happening in the world right now and how oddly it matches some of the events that stood at the beginning of some of the most horrible tragedies of humankind.