I admit that I have fallen down on my commitment to send out a “Blog” from time to time and let you know where we are and what we are doing. These were frequently spawned by an “event” that usually started with me muttering under my breath, “I feel a blog coming on.”
So here is a short synopsis of 2021: We traveled north to Washington State in late April 2021. We visited Holly in Newman Lake, Washington, Took in a single Bluegrass Festival in early June, 2021. Visited some friends on the way through and arrived at our Son and Daughter-in-laws’ place in Seabeck, Washington on July 18, 2021. We spent some time looking for property in Washington, but the housing balloon was growing fiercely and we couldn’t make any headway. We spent a week on Audrey II, Glen and Barbs’ 37.5 foot Hunter, sail boat from July 27 2021 to August 6, 2021. The rest of the summer was spent between Sequim,WA., Seabeck, WA. And the Portland, OR area visiting friends and relatives. (1)
In early November we put the rig on the road to Texas once again. We arrived on October 15, 2021. We are mostly hiding out from the “Co-Vid 19” Pandemic for a year and a half.
(1) Genaveve Starr and Karl Stokke, in Sequim, Wa; Ed and Sarah Daugherty, Sue and Phil Owen, Mel and Charley Stowell in the Portland OR. Area; Camped with Dave and Adriene Schilling at Silver Falls State Park; and bid, “Bon Voyage” to Bill and Kitty Bates as they sold their farm in Grand Ronde OR, and started the “Wandering Lifestyle”.
Gary and Judy enjoy hiking in Silver Falls State Park. 
Gary contemplates a Maple Bar Man at the Poulsboe Bakery.
That catches us up to January 2022.
December and January were busy months for us. I did two Physical Therapy series. One to address my increasing struggle with Parkinson’s disease with posture, stiffness, tremor and dyskinesia, which makes me look like I am struggling with some invisible Python. The other was to address my soft fuzzy voice. We replaced Judy’s hearing aids but that wasn’t much help. I learned to “Speak with Intensity.”
“God willin’ and the creeks don’t rise, I will go under the Brain Surgeons scalpel, or maybe more like a Dremmel tool, to rasp a pair of holes in my skull. I will get a pair of electrodes and a control module much like a heart pace-maker under my clavicle bone in my left shoulder. We are hoping to get better control of Parky and reduce the 30 or so pills I take daily. This operation is called “Deep Brain Stimulation,” “DBS.”
I will be following in the footsteps of Louis Wu of the Larry Niven Science Fiction Novels, “Ringworld”, (1970)” and “Ringworld Engineers” (1979). I consider these two books to be tra;ning manuals for me. The principle character in the two novels is Louis Wu, a 200 year old “Spacer” at the start of “Ringworld.” Nine years later we meet Louis Wu” again as a “Wirehead” in “Ringworld Engineers.” If you haven’t the time, or inclination to read the books you can get an idea what they are about in Wikipedia,org.
Right now I need to quit this, and book another doctor’s appointment, for next week.