On the road of recovery…

It's been about a week since I had my catheter taken out and I've already had my first two PT appointments as well. Things

are going great and I seem to be healing up pretty decently. After my second PT appointment, my physical therapist agreed that I'd probably be fine with only three PT visits instead of ten. That was great news because the temperatures in Mesa have been over 115 degrees several times and rarely will drop below about 110 this month. Even at night, the temperatures are often over 100° at 10 pm so we really want to head north.

It's been nice getting back to near normal health. I've been leaving early in the morning while it is still fairly cool (high 80's) and have been out for hikes at the Salt River as well as the Riparian Preserve. I find it nice to do a little birding and to get some exercise outdoors rather than only at the fitness center. Now that I'm getting better, it's time to start planning our departure.

Our current plans are to finish my third PT appointment this week and then head out of here by Thursday. It will be great to be back on the road again and I'm looking forward to it immensely.

Our first stop will be in Gallup, New Mexico for a night and then on to Bernalillo just outside of Albuquerque New Mexico for 5 or 6 days. It will be in the 90s there but that'll sure be a lot better than 115 and it will be in the 60's at night, so we're really looking forward to that as well.

We are heading to the north not just to get out of the heat as we need to have new levelers installed on our RV because our Atwood level legs system failed. One thing that was helpful was that I was able to remove our old Atwood level legs and all its components. I was then able to sell it all bit by bit on eBay which resulted in the overall cost of a new system being less than $1,000 out of pocket for our new levelers. We will have this done in Michigan in August which is where we're slowly headed.

Todays pictures are from our time birding the Riparian Preserve. Now it's time to start planning and packing...