Sunday Update

I'm sitting here wondering what to post, that isn't sounding forlorn or blue...  The medical front continues, as I was at the hospital on Friday again...

They repacked the incision on my back and I about jumped over the table...  The bad news is that I have to go back on Monday to get it done again...  Not sure they will release me to go to Arizona.....   But I might leave anyway and see if I can find some kind of medical facility to help me along the way...

Yesterday was fairly much a football day and a baseball day in the evening...  Ya I know, its a total waste of time...

Today so far it has been mow the yard and do laundry...  I'm not very domestic so these chores are just that.... Chores...

Its been too cold to go out on the Motorcycle, but today we are to have a brief afternoon of warmer Southern air....   Maybe 70...  Perhaps that is an opportunity...

I went over to the storage lot and brought home the utility trailer...  I thought I would load the bike into it since riding seems to be off the schedule...

I will take it with me to Arizona when I go...   I will always have the Burgman scooter back here should really nice days come about...

So no other news from here...

Retired Rod

Fear, Worry, Joy

My friend Sandie Dixon wrote a revealing blog about going to the hospital to see if your cancer is still gone.....  Fear, Anxiety, Worry, Amazement, Relief, Joy...

That was my day at the Hospital again today..  A CAT  scan with all of its big jugs of iodine solution..  Drink up !!  Then lay on the table and ride thru the machine..   Breathe........  Now hold your breath.......

Then you wait in the tiny exam room for the Doctors to read the scan...  Now completely alone with your scary thoughts..  The first time I've had to face this alone...

Well when they had me almost in tears with anxiety, they came in and said I was clean..

Oh, on the spider bite front, its not a spider bite any more..   Its MRSA the flesh eating bacteria...  Yesterday I had the in office lancing..  They then packed the wound with a packing...  It drained all day yesterday...

The packing needs changed again tomorrow....  It takes about 45 minutes to get to the hospital ... each way..  I will have been there three out of the last five days..

Retired Rod

Weston, Mo antique tourist trap...

I returned from the weekend camping trip and it took about 3 hours to move stuff back out of the RV into the house...  Not that I had that much stuff, but it had to be packed in from the street as I can't pull the rig into the driveway...  Its too short and very sloped uphill.

Then I begged the neighbor to follow me over to the storage lot with one of my cars to go put it away...  It was after dark when we got back home...

Today we went on the Romeo Ride with my son Ben...  He has the kids back in school, so I can duck out better...  The ride was to Weston, Mo...  This is a river town North of KC almost to St Joe..  A really old town with wineries and a distillery...

The main street is mostly antiques and gift shops in very old store fronts...  Over 100 years old for most of the places... There are bed and breakfasts along the side streets as well...

It was barely 50 degrees when we left, so I stayed on the city streets as far as I dared before finally getting on the I 435 beltway...  We crossed the Missouri river North of the speedway and then got off onto a blue road along the river bank.

It was about 54 when we pulled into Weston at 10:30..  A lot of the guys were already there...   Romeo Web site for pictures Here

On the way back we crossed over into Kansas riding thru Leavenworth and Bonner Springs, where we stopped at a McDonalds to get warm again as we usually do...

We were back home by 3 PM so Ben could go get the grand kids from school...

Another really nice sunny day, but somewhat cool for a cycle ride at 70 mph..

Retired Rod

Hillsdale Lake Camping..

I just googled this park and it is 24 miles down here from my home in Overland Park...  And of course the main road has to be closed for bridge work...

That is much shorter than most of our motorcycle rides....  But this is perhaps the closest Kansas State Park to our home...

In Kansas they have a state park fee, which is a daily usage fee just to drive on the property...  You can buy a state park permit with your license plate for an annual...  But I never know which of my vehicles to purchase it with...

I might go state park camping once a year, and it seems that we never use the same car...  But with Loyce gone now, I will perhaps go more with the kids in the future..  She wasn't as keen about the state parks because they didn't have full hookups and the toilets are mostly vault style..

When I paid the fee last night, I had to pay the day use fee for the motorhome for over 65 at $2.75 a day which is normally $4.50.  And that didn't seem prohibitive, until you realize that they tack on another $3 for the concessionaire...

And then the camping was a separate purchase for water and 30 amp electric..  That was $16.50 a night, and if there was a concessionaire fee, it must have been embedded..   The camp host had a small wooden shack that he had all of this electronic equipment in to go online and record these transactions..  But he could take credit cards.........!

So we are camped for two nights of the weekend on a grassy sight along this lake.. That you might be able to see if you walk to the far end of the grounds..

The lake itself is a army corps of engineer project, but Kansas has and runs the camping..  Some of the COE projects here in this state have both state and federal campgrounds.  But there is only a state park here..

Of course that is good right now as we are in the federal shut down.  I would assume that those parks are shuttered now.

But the good part of being here is the fact that they let you wash on your camper without further fees.  So my son Ben and I were attacking the front of this motorhome with a brush and a big bucket of soapy water...

The sun was drying out the suds before we could even rinse it off, so we only did the bugs on the front, but they had been on there since we were in Michigan in July...

I rationalized that driving to Arizona would put me in rain somewhere before got to the destination...  Maybe I can get the coach professionally washed down there once I arrive...

It is rather cool here, just barely making 70 degrees with a wind out of the North.  Couldn't ever get away from the sweatshirt once you were out of the sun... But that's camping in the fall..

Retired Rod