Well it's been a long time coming, but at last I'm on the road! I left Wisconsin a couple of days ago, and for those of you I haven't been in close contact with, here's a brief recap. I spent the summer at my mom's place; what was planned to be a bit of fixing up turned into a total disposal of mom's home. She was diagnosed with colon cancer, and has subsequently undergone treatment. Coupled with all of her other health issues, she needed to be placed in a nursing home, and my brother(at 42) into his very first apartment. It was a bit of a process, but everyone is now settled in. I am taking a very easy trip across the prairies, stopping to see all the things I used to fly by on
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