Slept late in the motel parking lot this AM. Headed west bound for Death Valley. Cogitated over last drs comments that i9 need to be inactive to let my kidney heal. Paid him heed. Chance exit off I-15 @ Mesquite, NV & stopped @ visitors’ bureau. Asked about camping & a shower. Town has a rec center: $1.00 shower & I’m clean. Shopped @ well stocked Smiths grocery chain store. Drove out S of town into BLM land in desert. Found spot off main gravel road. No trees, way open, mtns in near distance. Uninitiated might say bleak. I say not a lot of high density animals or plants.
Urologist said 3 weeks for 70% healing. Need to find out what i can do starting next Monday. I will treat this week as still recovery for 3 weeks.
Going to work my way along the N shore of Lake Mead to Las Vegas by weekend. I decided that if I went to Death Valley this week I would probably gone hiking which might not have done my healing any good.
Tuesday night Zags play Michigan State. Might stay around Mesquite which appears to be a hopping gambling town just across the border from straight laced Utah. Places to dirt bag camp in town.
It is very noticeable that the speculative economy went into the toilet in LV and even here in Mesquite as building construction and occupancy is at a stand still. Development on outskirts of LV was dead, many bldgs unfinished w/ nobody working on them. Housing developments platted but no housing starts.
Quiet night, temps around 30 & almost 70 at hot part of day.
Another go to place thought is Quartzite, AZ. I believe Mel’s dad is there. Town pops up filled w/ snowbirds. Might be a slow place to recuperate, would be staged for Sedona, AZ. Yeah, just the place to fall.