#27 Coveys Great Adventure - August / September 2016 - St. George

August / September 2016 – St. George            

The Great Adventure has temporarily ground to a halt. Between helping Liesa transition to a better stage in her life and working on healing my hip problem we have been both busy and restricted to the local area around St. George. We had planned to leave on Labor Day, but decided to extend our stay through September 19^th.

We moved from Temple View RV Park in St George to WillowWind RV Park in Hurricane, about 18 miles away. Temple View is really convenient to Liesa’s place and all the services in town, but doesn’t have a single tree. Almost two months of triple digit heat and no shade was more than enough. Our site at WillowWind is virtually tree covered. Hurricane is also at a slightly higher elevation so the net effect is substantially cooler temperatures. We haven’t run the air conditioning in several days!

It always amazes me how much work there is to living in an RV. Small spaces seem to need cleaning much more frequently than the house did. Tracking the same amount of stuff into 300 square feet that we used to spread over 3,000 sq’ certainly does make it more visible! I think I finally miss the dishwasher, too.

All hasn’t been just nose-to-the-grindstone, though. Ed Woznicki suggested that we check out Kolob Canyon at the northern end of Zion National Park. That turned out to be a great suggestion. Kolob Canyon is about 40 miles north of St. George, just south of Cedar City. While not in the same jaw-dropping class as Zion or Bryce it was certainly impressive in its own right and well-worth the visit. It was also a welcome break for us to get out of the coach for a few hours. I was concerned about having to walk around, something that I can’t do much of at present, but the canyon is quite accessible by car. My phone camera can't do justice to the scale of this place.

What I originally thought was Piriformis Syndrome didn’t turn out to be right, so after a few weeks of unsuccessful treatment, I went to a spine specialist for another opinion. An MRI showed a bulging disc impinging on the sciatic nerve. The first cortisone injection gave welcome relief but only lasted a couple of days. I had a second one in a slightly different place yesterday so I hope that does the trick.

I hope that they nailed it this time, because we are heading to Oregon on Monday for our third stint of camp hosting at Nehalem Bay State Park. Ranger Geoff called a couple of days ago to be sure we are still planning to come. It will be good to see Milton and Lynette Hansen, too, camp hosts that we have worked with every year. We can’t wait to hit the road again.

More soon,

Bob