Well we certainly picked the wrong summer to spend in our old home town in College Station, Texas. It has been over 100 degrees for seemingly forever. College Station has currently seen 60 days over 100 including 51 days in a row and 15 days in a row of over 105 degrees. They also set the highest ever recoded temperature of 112 which we have hit twice! Not hot by Arizona standards but the humidity here is always more oppressive.
Anyhow so what are we doing here except to get our RV repaired… Well, it turns out that our daughters is having another baby. We had thought about taking the RV over to North Carolina but after getting the recent repairs we decided to stay here and just fly over to NC.
So we have fallen into a bit of a routine with all this heat. We go for a morning walk of about two miles before it gets too dang hot! Lunch is next and then in the afternoon we go to a local gym for a workout. After our workout we are in search of a nice happy hour. And that is our life is for now.
As a side note, I should mention we joined a gym through a program called Silver Sneakers. If you haven’t heard of this program it is offered through Medicare any more specifically through Medicare Advantage. Not all Medicare Advantage programs offer it but most do.
Silver Sneakers is a health and fitness program designed for adults 65+ and Silver Sneakers members can:access live online fitness classes and an on-demand video library of prerecorded workouts. What we took advantage of is that thousands of gyms, community centers, and other participating fitness locations across the nation participate in it. This means that you can get a FREE gym membership!
Why would they offer it free? Well, the goal is to help you stay strong in body, mind, and spirit. Knowing regular physical activity keeps your heart, brain, bones, muscles, and joints healthy, insurers hope to save money in the long run!
So we've been going to the gym M-F to not only work out but to cool off as they air condition the heck out of these places. For now we are members of Tru-Fit and if we go somewhere else we will just change fitness clubs.
In the meantime we wait for Katie to have baby number 2. She is scheduled for a C-section in about a week or so and Sharon will fly up first to help take care of baby for 8 weeks and then I’ll fly to NC for 2 weeks before returning back to Texas.
In the meantime today’s pictures are from a walk we took on the Texas A&M University campus.
John, thanks for the tip about the Silver Sneakers program. I never use it at home because of other regular physical activities. But that's a helpful piece of info to keep in my back pocket for when we're on the road. Best wishes to your daughter and her family!
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DeleteWow, that's too many days in a row over 100. One would normally run out of indoor activities. Thanks for the Silver Sneakers tip. Karen has social security now but not sure she has an advantage plan. I'll make sure and ask her.
ReplyDeleteMy secondary insurance is Blue Cross from where I worked.
DeleteSorry but got a bit of a chuckle on the weather. Seems you froze in texx not long ago and now it's a bit warmer :)
ReplyDeleteNothing but extremes...
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