Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Escape Day--Four Years and Counting

Four years ago today, we left our temporary parking spot in Midway City, CA, to head out on our great adventure. We celebrate the day every year as "Escape Day." Our last day at work was February 14, and the next morning we headed out to Buellton to stay at the Flying Flags RV Resort there and attend Romney's square dance weekend in Solvang. We are still very happy to be vagabonds and plan to be on the road for many more years.

Wednesday is usually our day to dance, but not today. Ken woke up this morning with a swollen foot. He fell a couple of days ago, and one of his toes was painful, but we figured it would probably heal by itself. Since it hasn't, Ken had Dr. George look at it. He ordered an x-ray of the foot, which showed a very small chip which has already begun to heal. Dr. George said that it required no treatment except maybe ibuprofen and keeping his feet elevated.

We decided to ride our bikes for exercise today rather than walking, with the thought that this would stress the foot less. We biked about nine miles on the hike and bike trail, over to the Conway trail head and back to the park. Along the way we saw this sign. We googled "Champain Trail" in Mission and found some references to a mountain bike trail.




Ken sold the small compressor today to a fellow resident of Bentsen Palm. We still have a generator and a table we'd like to pass on to new owners.

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