Unfortunately, we’re still in Phoenix, despite trip plans that had us leaving by 5am this morning. In a case of bad luck and even worse timing, I managed to get a bit sick last night. At first I thought it was food poisoning – we made the always-bad mistake of eating fast food since we had already gotten rid of most perishables from the fridge and hadn’t grocery shopped all week. As soon as I was done eating, I knew it wasn’t going to be good, and I felt nauseous the whole night until I vomited a few times.
I was hoping that we could still get started this morning – even if we were a bit delayed in leaving. However, I was experiencing cold chills, serious body aches, and had also developed a fever. Suddenly, it seemed less like a fast-case of food poisoning and much more like a real cold, or worse, the flu – sickness that could not just seriously delay the trip, but cancel it altogether.
Luckily, a night of sleep and an early decision to postpone the trip a full day seems to have done the trick. Though I have some lingering symptoms, I feel better and anticipate that we’ll be hitting the road in the morning as long as I don’t regress any.
Since it was obvious that we wouldn’t be leaving on time, Kim’s been working on revisions to the trip plans. Most of them cut out at least one national park unit. After several revisions throughout the day, I think we’ve settled on one that manages to maintain the original list of sites. It will require an additional motel stay and also some relatively late arrivals at the motels – not too mention a post-midnight estimated return time back home – but I think we’ll be able to get it all in. And if not, we can cannibalize the night in Austin and/or arrive home later on Sunday to make sure it all fits.
At least if we can stay healthy, that is.
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I hope you feel better Scott!
Thanks April! I think we’re still on schedule to meet up, but I’ll give you a call later.
It’s 10:00 am. so you are safely on the way? Feeling OK or at least that you are not in danger of coming down with a really bad flu??? call me this am if you can & let me know how you are.
I love what you’ve done on this site. A tremendous amount of work. I spent an hour this Xmas morning checking it all out- and did the wedding slide show again for the umpteenth time.
Hope your trip is totally awesome and that all goes smoothly from here on in. Keep in touch. Much love to you both.
We’re on our way out the door right now. Both pretty tired, but so far feeling good enough to go. We have a long drive though, I think about 10.5 hours today, ending in a motel. Kim has a couple of revised trip plan options that still get us to all of the units we had planned on seeing, we’ll probably pick one during the drive today. I’ll call you later.
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