Man, I’ve heard something to the extent of “you brought California weather with you” countless times—I keep hearing this is “mild.” Well nothing about that makes me any less of a sissy—MAJOR!

Dude, I bought a jacket. May seem minuscule to you but something I’ve only done twice in the past 10 years (no joke), the first being October last year in Liverpool. Come to find out, that wasn’t a jacket at all, more like a windbreaker. Had to break down and get me one of those -40 rated, waterproof, has the sleeve inserts with the thumb hole things in it jackets. “Sissy,” the guy writing this, “guilty!”

Thanks for your help dude, I screen shotted your message to my friend. Made a couple of friends here dude, no Ish, out of all of our travels, you Brits are hands down the kindest—love the people here.

We’re addressing Pura’s illness, she contracted a bad stomach infection somewhere dude, she’s a U.K. citizen so she receives your free medical, this was NOT the plan! We cancelled Croatia to come back. Our ‘plan’ (funny wOrd, by the way) was to stay south until about June. Anyhow, here we are. We’re making progress, though, hopefully she’ll be all fixed up in the next month’ish so we’ll be here until then.