Sometimes Life Happens

The plan we had when we started out this summer was to visit Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. These are all states we haven’t visited before and would take a major chunk out of our states we have left to visit.

Then life happened. Between issues with the computer, air conditioning, dentist visits, and eye surgery, we’ve had to change our plans. Our biggest event we now have planned is a visit to the RV factory in Indiana to get all the RV problems fixed.

Our stay in West Virginia is much longer than expected. The good part is that Coopers Rock is a great place to stay with some wonderful hikes. Recently, I had another issue. As I was doing a morning hike, I pulled a muscle. Wasn’t bad for the next mile or so. Then it got to a point where I was standing at the Clay Iron Furnace and working out the closest method to getting to a parking lot. John got a call to come pick me up. The good part was that after a day in bed with ice and a few rest days, I was back to hiking.

The cicadas are now mostly dead. Now we have the aftermath. Branches in many trees and bushes are dead where the cicadas cut a groove to lay eggs. There’s a LOT of dead leaves and branches on the ground.