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December 1, 2007 I did not want this to become a history of my medical problems but it looks like thats the way its going since I don't have much else to talk about. About two months ago after the surgery and following problem with infection I developed arrhythmia (irregular heart beat). I had no energy, my blood pressure had gone up and I could feel the screwed up pulse anytime I took my blood pressure, so back the the heart electrician I go. After some test he puts me on another pill which seems to have made a world of difference. I feel much better and have been able to get back out walking about every day, my longest has been about seven miles, taking a little over two hours. My old back side was dragging after that but the doctors says the heart is a muscle and needs exercise so I am going to give it my best shot.

November 9, 2007 Sorry for not keeping up but its been a trying summer. Health problems have kept me from doing much. I did get in a few good rides on the harley, all over southern Ohio and one to Indiana. 

Looks like Sue and I are not going to try and go to Texas this winter, doctors have me scheduled up until Christmas. Maybe a few weeks in Florida in January if things go right.

September 06, 2007 The trip to Knoxville got canceled due to 100 plus degree weather, too hot for this old boy. Been doing some riding locally mostly in the evening an hour or two before sunset. The deer are out about that time and I get a charge out of watching them play. Sue and I are debating whether to go south this winter or not, all depends on our combined health situation, time will tell.

August 05, 2007 My son Chris and I are hoping to make a trip to the Harley Davidson users group rally at Knoxville, Tn. later this month. This will be my first major ride (280 miles one way) since my recent "unpleasantness". These rallys for those of you not familiar with motorcycle fanatics, are big events with folks coming from all over the country and some even from outside the USA. The following is a link to a picture of Chris and I on our bikes, taken back in the spring. I will try and get some additional pictures to post on our return.

Chris and Dean

August 02, 2007 First let me say I am sorry I have not kept up with my updates, but it has been one heck of a summer.

Back in May my cardiologist ran a stress test and decided my irregular heart beat was getting out of control. He sent me to another cardiologist that was also specialist in electro physiology (heart electrician). Well in late may I went into Kettering Hospital (south of Dayton) for a cardiac procedure. They insert a catheter through the artery in your leg (groin) and run it up into your heart where they try and find what is causing the short circuit in the pulse. Well they located some scar tissue left over from an old heart attack about 19 years ago and did what they could to fix the damage. This should have been a fairly minor procedure and I should have been back on the street by the next day. No such luck, about 4 hours after the procedure that took four hours the artery where entry was made comes unplugged and blew up a balloon size hump in my right groin.  So off to emergency surgery we go, this was follow by three more days in the hospital.
I had a hole in my groin big enough to put a roll of dimes in so I made several trip back to the doc who did the emergency surgery. Three weeks later feeling poorly, pulse rate jumps up about 20 points and I am running a temperature, my son who is in Chicago gets calls from mom and my daughter and he diagnoses it as an infection so back to the hospital I go. Sure enough I got an infection so I get to spend another week hooked up to IVs and taking on all kinds of 'stuff". It took another month to get over that, I just got dismissed from the surgeon and my home health care nurses and it looks like I may be on the road again. 

Sorry for the long story but it’s been a long time coming.

April 30, 2007
Chris Rock's "Quote of the Year"...

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colon.

Need I say more?
April 29, 2007 Our son was home from Chicago this weekend so we had the rest of the family in for Sunday brunch which is somewhat a tradition with us. All have left so Sue and I have taken a nap and things are back to normal. After returning from Texas this spring the motor home had two cracks in the front windshield, one of the side windows had weather stripping that had come loose between the thermal panes and on the other side moister had formed due to leaking between the panes, well to make a long story short I turned the two broken windshields in on my insurance and the other will be on my tab. I finally found a dealer not too far away that carried the brand motor home as ours and got estimates. WOW, bottom line the big windshields will cost the insurance company nearly $3000 and the two others are going to run me right at $1500. Oh well I have never seen a armored car in a funeral procession  so we will spend it while we have it.
March 23, 2007 Today has been raining but the temperature was above normal which is fine with me. Our trip to Cleveland came with mixed results, first the doctors told is that there was nothing that they could do surgically to help Sue's back. They say her back if loaded with arthritis so the only thing we can do it mediation, therapy and exercise when possible. While we were disappointed that nothing can be done it is some positive that surgery will not be done.
I am still getting orders on Lake Erie maps and have lots left in anyone is interested.
March 11, 2007 The weather is looking up, we still have a few patches of snow laying round but for the most part its nearly all gone. I have started cleaning up the yard of all the winter trash, limbs etc that have accumulated. It been nice enough today that I got the motorcycle out and toured the neighborhood, felt good to get out once more. Sue is under going therapy and has another week to go on her back, we go back to Cleveland Clinic Monday a week and we will see what they have to say then.
February 20, 2007  The temperature seems to be going in the right direction (up). About 1/2 of the ice on our driveway has melted off but piles of snow remain and will be around for a while yet. The motorhome is still frozen to the driveway but all in all it is looking up.

February 14, 2007 We have about 10 inches of snow & ice on the ground, sure was nice to get back to Ohio in time to get dumped on again. Our trip to Cleveland went well, the docs wanted some additional x-rays before making any decisions, also they want Sue to under go some additional therapy to see if it has any effect. Anyway we are to make a trip back in early March, hopefully the weather will be better by then.

I tried to move the motor home today but found that the leveling jack were frozen solid to the cement, so she will have to set there until the weather warms enough to free her from the frozen driveway. I have been getting several orders for Lake Erie Maps of late, which makes me think that there are others out there who are ready for warmer weather besides me. I did get out and start my motorcycle today, not sure if that was to warm her up and charge the battery or for me to hear her run anyway think spring.

January 27, 2007 We are back in sunny Ohio after a non eventful three day trip home. The weather here is at best not good and we have a cold spell coming in tonight, low for tonight is predicted to be 19 degrees with tomorrows high being 20 degrees (burr). We are trying to get ready for the trip to Cleveland Clinic a week from Monday. Sue had a MRI done yesterday at Kettering Hospital which will go with us to Cleveland. Sure hoping for good weather for our trip north.

January 20, 2007 If you have watched the weather maps over the last week the weather here has been nothing to brag about, highs in the 50s with over night lows in the low 40s and rain or drizzle most mornings, and it looks like another week or so of the same thing. While we have to be out of here by the 27th we are watching the weather and when we see clear weather through upper Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama we are out of here.

January 15, 2007 Boy the bottom dropped out of the weather today, we had a high in the mid 50s and the 5:30pm temperature is close to 40 degrees. The folks down here are fun to watch, I have seen ice fisherman with less clothes on, you would think it was -29 degrees. Just a little while ago the TV flashed a message that Donna (a town just down the road) had canceled school activities for the evening due to the weather. Boy a few days around Lake Erie in the winter would give them a totally different prospective on bad weather. Our son had been here for a few days and flew out this morning going back to Chicago, he got hung up in Houston for two hours due to flight back ups at O'Hare. Now that part of the county knows what bad weather really is.

January 14, 2007 It looks like another beautiful day here in south Texas, morning temperature is 73 degrees and we have a genital breeze out of the southwest. Looks like we are in for a temperature drop in the next few days though with lows in the 40s predicted for mid week.

We will start winding down next week and will head back to Ohio starting the morning of the 27th. We have things to do back home in February so all good things must end. I kind of miss home after being gone over two months now, Sue has to make a trip to Cleveland Clinic in early February to see if they can do anything to help her back problems so it will be a busy time for us.

January 09, 2007 Today in the south can be seen clouds of dark smoke, the sugar cane farmers are burning off the dried leaves before harvest or so I am told. If the wind is from the south you can expect your car and rig to be covered with the ash. Much of the flat land along the Mexican border is used for growing sugar cane as well as vegetables. It is hard to comprehend a place having a 12 month growing season after spending a lifetime in Ohio.

Speaking of the Mexican boarder we took a drive down SR-281 which runs from south of McAllen all the way to Brownsville just north of the boarder, I was amaized (disheartened) to see all the truck turminal full of trucks hauling out of Mexico, I suspect this is the "huge sucking sound" that Ross Perot predicted several years ago.

December 28, 2006 The weather continues to be great though we have strong winds today, 25 to 35 knots with gusts in the 40s. Temperature is in the mid to upper 70s. A front is to pass through sometime tomorrow and the winds will lay. I made a trip to the Don-Wes flee market yesterday looking for a few things and got suspicious that their price was more than Camping World which is about 10 miles east of here, once we got back to the bus I checked Camping Worlds web site and sure enough, their price at the flee market was about $9 dollars higher. I guess they have decided we can afford the increase, it pays to double check when buying anything any place.

December 20, 2006 Other than the great weather there is not much to report, temperature today is mid to upper 80s, wind is around 10 knots out of the south. We are to get a front tonight which will bring cool temperatures tomorrow and through the weekend if you can believe the weather guessers. The fruit and vegetables down here are great, I have eaten more apples and oranges this trip than I have in the last year. We have orange and grapefruit trees right here in the park but the oranges are the ones with seeds so I have been going to a local orchard and buying the best navel oranges you every hung a lip on, the price is very reasonable, 10 pounds for $3.00

December 11, 2006 After a few days of cool and damp weather it has returned to the upper 70s today. We went to Weslaco this morning to a little place we found a couple of years ago called "Lord and Irene". It is in a home that has been made into a restaurant and bakery. The food is authentic Mexican cuisine which is what I like, after driving 1700 miles to get here I don't intend to eat in McDonald if I can help it. We also visited a few places just west of Harlingen then came back the "Military Highway" which follows the Rio Grande River which is the border between the USA and Mexico.

December 8, 2006 Last evening Sue and I decided we were tired of our own cooking (this happens fairly often). There is a little place down the street and around the corner from where we are staying called "Willie Bs Bar B Q". We had been past it many times but it was not one of those places that "grabs you" but recently some others had talked about how good the food was so we decided to give it a try. Once in the door we found it to be "cafeteria style" ie; get in line and order what you want. Sue ordered the stuffed baked potato, the counter man pulled out of a hot box what I thought was a football wrapped in foil. It was one of the biggest baked potatoes I had ever seen, it took a minute for me to decide if he was going to cut it or pass it. I ordered the bar-b-q plate with potato salad and cole slaw, all were very good for under $20 for the both of us. Just goes to show that especially here in south Texas you never know from the looks of the outside what the inside will be like.

December 7, 2006  First thought today is for those who lost their lives on this day so many years ago. Thank God that we as a nation have people like those. The saying that "Freedom is not free" could not be truer.

December 6, 2006 The weather has turned for the good, todays high was near 80 degrees, winds are light at best. I set out under the awning for a few hours today and got an unintended nap. The orange trees are full of fruit, most is still green but tuning ripe. We stopped at a fruit stand and bought a shack of navel oranges, the were 25 cents per pound and for two dollars I got a large bag full.

November 30, 2006  Well it can't all be "roses", we had a cold front blow through about 10 this morning dropping the temperature from over 70 down into the 50s. Everyone is running around talking about how cold and miserable the weather is, personally I think they are all spoiled and a few weeks in Ohio would give them a perspective on what bad weather really is. Tomorrow is to be better with temperatures back in the 70.

November 29, 2006  We have been here in south Texas long enough that the wheels have stopped turning but I am still trying to recover from over 1500 miles on the road, could it be I'm not as young as I used to be ? The weather has been breezy but the temperature is great, in the upper 80s every day since we arrived. We have yet to do much but once we recover from the trip we plan on getting out and seeing a few sights. If you have a craving for Mexican food this is the place for you, I did go out to a little place we know up the road and got breakfast tacos yesterday morning. Sue likes hers fairly plain, eggs, cheese and potatoes, I am a little bolder and get the spice verity which has a after taste that lasts for 24 hours. The food is really something special and seems better at the places where English is at best a second language.

November 27, 2006 We have spent the last couple of days looking over the "Texas hill county" around Kerrville and Fredricksburg. This part of the country is very scenic with rolling hills and lots of trees and shrubs, the trees are just starting to change color. The highlight of today was a tour of President Johnsons ranch between Johnsonville and Fredricksburg. A very interesting tour with a 6000 foot runway for private jets when Johnson was president. The land is now a national park and is well worth an afternoon if you get into this part of the country. We leave in the morning for the Rio Grande Valley about 300 miles south.

November 26, 2006 First let me apologize for neglecting this site for so long but it has been a non eventful summer for Sue and I, not much going on.

We are on our way to south Texas for the winter and have stopped for a couple of days in Kerrville, Texas, we will leave here tomorrow (Monday) for Alamo, Tx., back at the same campground we spent the last three winters . The weather is good with temperatures in the upper 70s to mid 80s.