I'm back!!

Thank you so much to all of you who sent well wishes after my fall and ankle sprain. I got back home late last night, to much humidity and more ankle swelling. I'm trying to take it easy, but had to hit the ground running (figuratively) today. I'm going to take it easy the rest of the week and think it's wise to miss the 15 miler this Saturday, just so I can get better. I'm hoping if I rest well and ice it, I'll be ready to get back into shorter runs next Monday.

As for the remainder of the trip, I missed two hiking days, the first of which was almost a blizzard (and I napped through it), and the second of which was quoted by the hiking book as "insanely steep" due to bear activity closing our other alternative exits from that trail. So I lucked out with what I missed. We went to Canada the third day, and after that, I hiked the rest. We didn't get to do the longer trails we love so much because of either the access road being closed due to late snowfall or trails being closed for bear activity. It worked out just as well.

Since this is a time in my life where I'm paying much more attention to the journey than the finish line, this was a great trip to remind me of that. These friends on this trip were so great, helping, thoughtful, etc. And when I was able to walk into our meeting room without crutches after a couple of days, everyone cheered. What a close group of friends. We had a blast.

I walked out of the airport last night at 10:30 thinking "tell me again why we live here with this humidity?" Oh yeah, it's the friends. Thank you all for your thoughts and wishes, they worked!!