Big Meadows - Shenandoah National Park

We're back in some of our old stomping grounds.  We've got a nice spot at the campground.  I just don't remember the hills being so hard to walk up!

Pictures are from our walk down the Lewis Falls Trail and back up the Appalachian Trail back to the Big Meadows complex.  Gorgeous day here.  Long sleeve weather.

As some may be aware, it seemed like the trailer started falling apart since crossing the Mississippi River.  Small, annoying stuff.  Well that stopped.  But then Donna and I started falling apart.  I had a filing finally crack apart which made for an early morning visit to a dentist.  Then Donna got her traditional "bug in the ear"...or what she calls the "free Willy exercise" while walking back to the trailer from the wayside.  Since it was late in the day, that all resulted in a trip to an ER to

"free Willy".   And you'd think finding an ER would be easy.

We've got GPS.  We've got a smart phone with tons of apps to find things.  And they've got those blue "H" signs along the highway to find hospitals.  Well, it's not.  GPS useless in trying to find a hospital.  Smart phone can't even get you to a hospital.  And those little blue "H" signs - total joke, too.  They sent us to closed surgi-centers.  We had to do it the old fashion way.  When I finally gave up, Donna asked  

somebody.  When we got there, the roads weren't on the GPS or on the Google Maps app.  I'm guessing that if it was a real emergency, you'd call 911 and get an ambulance there - assuming the ambulance knows where the ER is.  All this money for all this electronics and it's a total joke.  In hindsight, maybe I should have called NSA.  They're suppose to know everything, anyway.

But we survived.  Donna's got drops to help heal the inflammation.  I can chew on both sides of my mouth now.  So lets go walking.  Later, David