| Travel days. Flew: Tallahassee-Charlotte-Dublin-Helsinki. No troubles. Though Dublin airport seemed more hectic than it needed to be. Finnair boarding passes to Helsinki weren't available until Dublin so we had to go through passport check to the Finnair counter and wait in line with lots of Chinese tourists and back through security. Dublin security moved a lot of people very quickly but it seemed a bit disorganized; could easily get disconnected from your carry-on luggage if a thief was at the other end and you were traveling alone and have prosthetic hips that set off the alarms that delay the process a bit. But all was fine. We were picked up by our friend Karri Kokko who we met at Arte Studio Ginestrelle in Assisi, Italy in 2011. |
Karri is in the stop motion video Si, I See, in Assisi and his voice is heard on A Simple Thing. We were fortunate to work with him again in 2012 to create and perform Cagevent: Sometimes it Works, Sometimes it Doesn't. We enjoyed dinner with Karri where he helped Jo install a sim card in her IPhone and coffee the next morning We are hoping to meet up in Tampere later this month and visit our environmental installation Birch Loops to see how much is left/how it has changed in five years.
| Train: Helsinki to Lapua. Very quiet electric train with only occasional voices from passengers who didn't go to the quiet room at the end of the car for cell phone conversations. Picked up by Vanha Paukku director Christine who took us to our roomy two bedroom apartment as well as gave us a tour of the art studios. |