My wanderings for the rest of the month take me to Florida and Japan, including one public talk:

On Friday, I fly Rome - New York - Tampa, and spend the weekend with my parents in Englewood, Florida. My sister will be down from New Jersey as well, so it will be a fun mini-family reunion. I am sure we'll connect via iChat with my brother in da U. P. (That's the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, for those on the list who don't speak Yooper.)

Monday I catch a 6 am flight to Dallas and then a very long flight from there to Tokyo, followed by a three hour train ride to Niigata. I'll be attending the Asteroids-Comets-Meteors meeting that was supposed to have been held last year but got canceled due to the earthquake. The following Monday, the 21st, I return to Tokyo and stay overnight with the Jesuits at Sophia University. 

Tuesday I am back in Florida, after another very long flight. 

Wednesday, May 23, at 6:00 pm I am speaking in Ocala at the Institute for Human - Machine Cognition; the topic is "Discarded Worlds -- Astronomical Ideas that were almost correct..."

The weekend finds me with friends in Ovieto, then returning to Englewood to catch up some more with my parents. I get back to Rome on the 30th.