My 87 year old Mom fell recently. She has become unstable with difficulties walking. She hit her head, was badly bruised with a concussion, spent a week in the hospital and is currently in rehab. We hope to have her home in a week. One of my golf buddies couldn’t make our annual golf pilgrimage this year, which we have been doing for over 20 years, because he is home tending to his wife with ALS. We just buried my God-Mother last week. It is NOT easy getting old! This is not intended to be a blog to bring you down. This is part of life. Hopefully this blog is one to wake you up? Wake you up to the fact that time is precious – DON’T Waste it! We only have so much of it.
I spent last week in Rapid City South Dakota. It was an awesome trip with a lot of “firsts”!!! I visited Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse memorials (inspiring). Took in the Minuteman Missile Museum (sobering). Hiked the Black Hills and the Badlands (exhilarating). Saw Buffalo, Prairie Dogs and Longhorn Sheep at Custer State Park and visited Devil’s Tower in Wyoming of “Close Encounters of a Third Kind” fame. I drove a UTV through the off roads of the Black Hills (very cool). Ate a Guy Fieri suggested burger @ Burger & Bun Co. in Custer (The Hot Granny – THE BEST!). https://www.blackhillsburgerandbun.com/menu Visited the Motorcycle Museum and THE biker bar in Sturgis (Knuckles). This knucklehead had the house brew (Knucklehead Red). Drove the Spearfish Scenic Byway to take in three waterfalls. We ended our trip in the old mining town of Deadwood with a Stagecoach ride through town and a tour of Pam’s Purple Door Bordello which closed in 1980 (fascinating!).
Visiting and hiking the great national parks in the United States is something that I look for opportunities to experience. When my friend who lives in Rapid City innocently mentioned “you should visit,” I spontaneously went to work planning the trip. As my dying Dad once told me… “Do it while you can.” So I did it before I can’t walk, before I am diagnosed with a disease or before I’m in the ground. “The Clock is Ticking Down” on EVERY one of us EVERYDAY! Why not make the most of the time while we can? Maybe even look to do a first NOW? Today???
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