New Photos-Blog from Russ

 We're in San Antonio. A very long drive from Santa Fe. West Texas is huge and desolate. San Antonio is ok, but other than good restaurants and the Riverwalk, there isn't much here. We're off to Austin on Friday and then Mobile and the Florida panhandle for some beach time and golf.

  Many pictures will follow. For the uninitiated, click on a photo to enlarge it. 

 We're still really enjoying ourselves.Amazingly, it hasn't gotten tiresome staying in hotels. We do only a minimal amount of touristy things. We try to remember that we don't have to worry about seeing everything. We are trying to live each day pretty much as we would if we were settled somewhere permanently; no rush to get up or eat at any particular time, watch tv in the evening, go to movies, play golf, sit by the pool,etc.

   My health is good. Have gone more than four weeks without seeing a doctor, which is the longest stretch in three years.  The biggest hassle we have is our health insurer denying all my visits to eye specialists on this trip(in Denver and Seattle) despite my eye doctor quite clearly and emphatically indicating to the insurer that the visits were absolutely essential. And the costy was most certainly less than if I had been in Rochester, where my specialist would have wanted to see me weekly rather than the once every three weeks I saw someone on the road. There is a special place in hell for these people. Can you imaging how many millions 0f dollars then wrongfully deny to people each year.

  Sorry for the mini-rant. And as everyone reading this knows, to complain about $ 800 in unpaid claims in the face of everyone's  stock market losses seems almost trivial, but perhaps that's all the more reason to fight it. 

   Hope to hear from you. Please email or call. We love to talk or correspond. Be well. Russ