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 19th.
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!


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
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