One week later
Jessica | July 1, 2008 2:11 pmIt’s been a week now and I’m feeling much better. Still sore on the knees and elbow (road rash that I keep damaging again by doing things like walking or bending my elbow), but the other bits of road rash and bruises are healing up. Tomorrow I’ll head to a hospital for another set of x-rays and hopefully it’ll turn out my wrist isn’t broken and I can take off this cast. We’ll see. It’s still sore, but I’m hoping that’s just bruising and not something broken.
If nothing else at least it was a good excuse to just sit around and read. I’ve been working through a couple of books on American history, most notably one called “The River of Doubt: Theodore Rosevelt’s Darkest Journey”. (Did you know he hated to be called Teddy?) It’s about some exploring in South America that he did after being defeated for a third term as president. Before reading this I also read a quick biography of him called a “Lion in the White House”. I didn’t realize how little I knew about him before. I’d highly recommend River of Doubt. I didn’t intend to read the whole thing yesterday but stayed up until 2:00am to finish it (which I think sort of bothered the security guard since I was just sitting in the front seat of my car reading from 8pm till 2am).
Did some other sightseeing while I was in Denver as well. Toured the state capitol, the US Mint, and the National Renewable Energy Labs (yes, I am a nerd). Made a pilgrimage to the first Chipotle restaurant. I don’t like to go to chain restaurants while I’m traveling, but Chipotle is one of the few I’ll make an exception for so of course I had to visit the original.
The prius has been preforming admirably though will take some rearranging. I haven’t been moving easily enough this last week to take care of that. I also need to find a better set up for the front seat. Right now I have large drawer underneath the board that extends from the bed in the bad. Keeps everything out of the way, but the problem is the drawer is too damn heavy. Not sure yet what will put there instead. May move the drawer to sit on top of the board since I can bolt it down there and right now everything I put there ends up sliding down into a pile on the floor.
Next Boulder and Rocky Mountain National Park.
3 Responses to “One week later”
Glad to hear you’re feeling better. Good luck with the healing!
Since you’re in colorado you’d BETTER go to Big City Burrito. Best burritos on the face of the earth. You will greatly regret missing out if you miss out.
I hope the x-ray goes well. Continue with the healing!
I just finished the Michael Pollan book “A place of my own: the education of an ameteur builder”. It’s about him (he’s the guy who wrote “Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food” – both also good) building a little writing house on his land in CT. Not about traveling, but kind of about finding a place for oneself. And it was good. So if you’re looking for something else to read… Oh, and his other books that I said above. And Barbara Kingsolver’s book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” about growing her own food for a year (recommended by Margot). And “Why zebras don’t get ulcers” about stress and physiology (still need to finish that one… Keep not quite having time to finish it during vacation then forget what I’ve read and repeat some of it).
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