Our updates for all of you

So, I'll start with the pain as in a pain in both of our backs! My pain started with me doing something around October 12th or 13th, and I don't know what it was so I can try to make sure I won't do it again! But the afternoon of the 13th I was having pain on my left hip and by the next day the pain was down the front of my left thigh too and was extremely painful just lifting my left leg. Just standing hurt and trying to lift my leg to get into a vehicle was almost tears to my eyes painful on my left thigh. You know how something like this happens and you might start to think of a "worst case scenario", kinda like in July 2013 when out of blue I had my BPPV vertigo event happen and was thinking "is this my new normal?" by week 2. Then this also seemingly 'out of the blue' since I had no strain or injury to cause this pain I could recall, I started thinking I was suddenly one of those guys to deal with lower back and leg 'sciatica' pa

On our Dinosaur Trail Adventure of 2016.  Getting all this information, photos, videos, audio, together has taken waaaaaaaay longer than I thought it should! In an effort to get this posted I'm breaking the story into smaller chunks and getting them posted as soon as I can now! After all, it was 3 months ago now! Overall, and I think I can safely say this trip was, for all of us involved with this trip, .................., a blast!! And Sandy even said she felt it was "the best trip ever"! Yes, taking a trip mid tourista season (July in the USA) has many drawbacks due to those crowds, made much worse in 2016 by (relatively) "cheap" gas and the 100th anniversary year of the US parks service. Then throw in this year's record heat too, but when we weren't at those big ticket crowded places and farther North, like Northern Montana, it was a great time. Almost 3,000 miles in a little over 2 weeks. The day we left had started off very unsure. Frida