Ever heard the expression, “I’m running so fast that I just passed myself going?”

About half an hour ago, I passed myself.

It is amazing how much has to be done before you leave the country. I’ve got a stack of patient calls 3 foot high that I’m supposed to call before “leaving the office.” And I was supposed to have left the office 50 minutes ago.

But one thing is a certainty — in 12 hours and 5 minutes, give or take for airline margin, I’ll be on my way north, then south, then southwest, then north and finally east.

I’m still not quite understanding the leg to Philadelphia on the way to Brasil…