Trip Begins in about 10 days

 Location: Heart of Haynesville RV Park; Mansfield, Louisiana (Homebase)

I've been back at my homebase for about 3 weeks now. I had some great visits with family which is always a reason to return home. I've accompanied my X-wife to a couple of her doctor's appointments and will a couple more before I head out on August 1st. I've seen my optometrist, and he says my glaucoma is doing really good with eye pressures of 16 & 17. For comparison, the worse pressure I've had, which would have been many years ago was 24. The worrisome boundary is 20 with the lower the better. Checking the pressure in your eyes is a simple process and painless process. I believe everyone should have it done, if for no other reason than to establish a baseline pressure to be used as comparison for future tests. For, a simple man like me, I look at it like this. The eye pressure builds up because the fluid that drains from the eye (not tear duct) is blocked. It builds up which increase the pressure in the eye which damages the optic nerve which leads to blindness. That's really oversimplified but it is the way I look at it. 

I see my cardiologist on Thursday and my GP next week. I have subjects to discuss with each of them. I'm lucky in that the doctors I have are willing to discuss things as an equal partner and not someone "speaking from on high" and handing down the word with directions on what to take and things to do. Both visits should be interesting and possibly life-changing (hope not). 

I hit the road on August 1st headed to Goshen, Indiana for the annual Forest River International RV Rally. It's a week-long event with technical seminars, good eating and visiting with like-minded people. Also, free repairs are made to your RV if you meet certain criteria. In my case, I meet that criteria and hope to get my refrigerator and door replaced. I may be disappointed but based on past experiences at previous rallys in which I've received about $15,000.00 of free work, I don't think I will be. Just like my upcoming doctor's visits, my fingers are crossed.

I'm leaving a little later than usual, so I'll be doing a little longer tows with only two days at campgrounds. It will work like this: 1 day of travel, 1 day of rest, repeat that process until I arrive at the rally on the 9th. I could dead-head there in a couple of days of hard driving but then would need a couple days to recover which sort of defeats the purpose of the relaxing part of the Rally. We will see how this works out. 

I'm not sure if I'll post again before hitting the road. If not,

Ya'll take care of each other. Maybe I'll Cya down the road.