Day 61, April 29.

Back to work. This was an unexpected session for me. Originally I thought I was just going to meet with a team of people working in a community, but come to find out it was a full-blown 4 –hour presentation to almost 20 on community work from the inside-out.

Sue and Bernie had done a masterful job (as usual) bringing people together from all over the area in a city called Middlesbrough, some of whom had been exposed to the three principles and some not. There we were joined by Julian Freeman, who had actually arranged this leg of my journey in the first place.

We met in the Breckon Hill Community Center. I actually loved this presentation, because it was the first community presentation I’ve done on this whole trip, so it was real different for me. It helped that it went over really well.

A woman named Bec, who had been studying the 3Ps for over three years with Michael Neill and Jamie Smart, even told me it was the first time she really grasped the three principles. Warms my heart.

Then Tony and Steve drove me from the northeast six hours or so all the way to Southern England where they live in Brighton. We drove in silence until we stopped for dinner at about the half-way point, which was perfect for me because I was talked out. We arrived in Brighton pretty late, and I go on again tomorrow evening.

An aside: Bernie had driven me from Saltburn to Middlesbrough that morning in a Nissan Note, and I fell in love with that car. I don’t think we can get those in the States. It got great mileage yet was big enough to even sleep in the back. I could see traveling around the U.S. in something like that.

In Edinburgh I also had seen a van Volkswagen makes that is about the size of the old VW Microbus (like Amanda had in Spain), and I’m pretty sure we can’t get those in the States either. Why not?