Last night I slept in the Smokehouse parking lot again which is about 150′ from major 2 lane hwy. Traffic noise is nil after 11, morning rush starts around 6:30 which is a sleep breaker. I catch one airing of the Bob Edwards show, no longer the time slot I had to make. Now Diane Reem show is an hour after Bob, by then I am out and about missing her show.
At the DR yesterday I was told that I would be contacted by them about tomorrow’s exams. No call by end of business.
I bought my dinner from natural food grocery store and ate it in the parking lot. Laura greeted me as I was facing away from the open door on my balance ball. She will be embarking on a nomadic adventure heading back to outside Pisgah. She wanted to learn answers to her questions. But of course. I drove back to the Smokehouse for another night.
Today right after 8 I called the office. I was told to report for a CT w/ contrast and return to the office for 3:40 followup. No food or liquid for 3 hours prior. I drove out to the MANA facility. I walked in to the office, the woman at the desk entered my name. Shortly I was escorted to the inner workings waiting room. Not an objectionable wait I was summoned into the CT room. Remove metal. Lie down w/ head in cradle, this will be a stick for the IV, plumbed for very warm feeling all over, don’t worry you might feel like you wet your pants but you really didn’t do it. Breathe in & hold the machine’s computer voice. Out in a jiffy. Long wait time after appointment time passed, no status given. DR’s next test was inserting a scope up my nose and out to my big toe on my left foot. He numbed the working right nostril and gave the medicine time to accomplish its effect. He read the CT scan and reported that all is good, nothing of concern. He told me that all was good from his scope view. So now I know that there is nothing medically going to bum me out cause. Perhaps it is from doing situps in the AM. I have been doing 60 a day while lying back on the exercise ball. My neck is strained, perhaps the felt constriction is muscle caused. Straight line says quit the situps.
Yesterday I weighed myself naked after a 60 something minute ride, I weighed 156lbs. To me w/ what I feel on my body would calculate a 150 weight.
Out of the DR’s office relieved w/ results. I stopped again for dash and go dinner then headed to Red Star and the Buffalo Headwaters trails. Red Star ain’t on the map. A bit outside Fayetteville to the East. Back country well maintained 2 lane highway. Several small towns and a few just a sign on the road. I read the sign on the highway for the trails and turned onto the directed dirt road. Rain runoff was flowing down each wheel tract. The dirt was red and the surface appears to be native rock which to me said driving would be just muddy water sprayed up. That was true for the road to the lookout spur road which I took climbing up to Buffalo Lookout looking out over the Buffalo River headwaters, Buffalo was America’s first wild and scenic river designation, yeah, that’s right here in Arkansas. This road was pretty runoff affected, the wheel slipage light flashed. The utensil drawer popped open again and my hydration pack fell to the floor from up on top of refrigerator. The lookout is enclosed in a security fence topped w/ razor wire. The ground appears to be well wetted negating the need of a lookout. I drove by the start of a trail. I leaned that this part is newly created purpose built trail by Trail Solutions, machine built. The end would connect w/ the trails near How’s place. I downloaded the gps tract from my ride here 2 years ago. Hardly any soil over the rock.
How called me after I parked, he said he saw me heading this way while he was heading the other way. Then the call was dropped. I told the phone to call the last number, the number displayed but no connection.
Jimmy from Bike and Bean texted me for rides around Gallup. I told him the Zunis. He texted me pics of him camped almost where I was. Then he called me. He just read my earlier text to go meet Bill. Jimmy said that they met him last night and drank beers w/ them. He said that several of the guys in attendance for the Wed evening ride stayed @ Jimmy’s Red Agave in VOC this winter.
Short and light frequent showers. 70% chance of showers tomorrow. I believe the trails will not be damaged by my ride. It will be dripping wet. Poison ivy. I turned off the music. I listened to light rain hitting the leaves. A stiff breeze just came up. Earlier I heard a whipporwill, may this one keep its distance. I wonder where I will see my first lighting bug or firefly.
I did my wash this AM in Fayetteville just off campus. Today, Thurs, was free dry day which packed ’em in. Prolly all were locals. I added 4 gallons of sink water to my tank. 1 gallon at a time ferried in a 1 gallon jug. Filled the propane tank, so great to see the spitter valve spitting.