Blogging is fun

This blogging can be a real ego trip. Put your thoughts down, click publish and wolla you are on the front page --- well sort of anyway. Click on your page and there you are and all of your wonderful thoughts in print. I love it. I wonder where all this stuff goes anyway?

Our retirement trip will be improved tomorrow when Alinda gets back from Florida. She had to go home to help take care of her 91 year old mother who was ailing. Fortunately Ma made a turn around and it looks as if she will be around for awhile. We all like that. Alinda will be coming into Angel Albino de Corzo airport. Got a funny story about that Tuxla airport. We have been here before so when Alinda had to fly out we "knew" where the airport was. And we saw the sign at the West end of town when we drove in. Missed the signs at the East end of town. But fortunately we decided to stay in a motel the night before the flight and check out things the day before the flight. Stayed at the Tuxla Auto Motel. These auto motels in Mexico are the cleanest nicest rooms at rock bottom prices. Don't know why tourists dont use them more. The locals do and they can pay by the hour for hanky panky. Most travel guides ignore them. They are on the outskirts of every major city. Anyhow, we went to the airport and it was gone. Signs to the airport still up. Big ones on the highway. But no airport. Without our permission the airport was moved across town, but someone neglected to take the old signs down. The new airport is a beauty and also well marked, and I am sure the area will grow into it.

So so far this has been somewhat of a difficult trip for us. I need to go back a few months. After I had a foot accident in Florida, cleaning up after hurricane 4, we decided that we should quit work. We bought a motor home as we felt our hard core backpacking-hostel staying-tent camping days were over. We travelled around in the motorhome for awhile and loved it but decided that a trip into Mexico and Central America with it would not be wise for many reasons. In spite of reading Panama in 99 days in a motorhome, an excellent book. So we decided to car it in our Toyota 4runner, as we had done a couple of years earlier in a 1988 Ford Bronco.

Day we left I got hit with what I found out later was sciatica. Could drive and all that but walking was a bitch. Did not get rid on that for a couple of months when doctors in Mexico gave me various treatments that finally made it go away. Then after that at a time share hotel I decided that since I could walk around some I went for a walk barefoot on hot pavement and burnt the shit out of my feet. Clever boy. Pain was not bad as I had frozen my feet a couple of times at Prudhoe Bay Alaska working on the north slope oil fields. Also I found out I am in a pre-diabetic stage and bloodflow to feet is slow. Now this as turned out the be a real problem as the burns turned into ulcers. Mexican doctors have been very good and the sores are just about closed now. But all that slowed up my walking. But I did bring my Mercurio bicycle with me that I had purchased on an earlier trip to Mexico, and I am getting my strength back peddling around San Cristobal de Las Casas. So now I am in better health, eating a good diet and lost 20 pounds, blood sugar down, and might make it to 78.

Well, I regressed quite a bit so now I need to get my thoughts going on retirement again. I suspect that I will be the only one reading this stuff so I really can ramble on all I want. And I still wonder where all this stuff goes.