The weather has been quite nice the past few days. A bit cool at night but in the 70's during the day.
Nancy had her eye surgery this morning at 6:30am. A bit early, but that was her appointment. They seemed to have patients lined up for their surgery one after the other. It only took about 20 minutes to do the surgery but additional time to get things ready to go and then some time after the surgery was over. She and Evelyn was home about 9am and all was going well. Drops were needed every 2 hours or so, but all went well and no pain at all. Back in the morning for a check up and then another day this week and that will be all for this eye unless there is a problem.
The photos are from one of my favorite parks, Big Bend. You can see the Rio Grand River and the mountains on the Mexican side. Quite high and very steep. A difficult place to cross into the U.S.. On the U.S. side it is just waste land where the high water flows and washes things away during the rainy season. However, we saw areas of the border that were not protected, from what we could tell, at all. However you did see a lot of Border Patrol vehicles along the roads and there were several check points away from the border where they checked your vehicles. They would ask strange questions at different areas. One, ask if I knew about ham radio. I have my call letters on the front bumper of the van. We chatted a few seconds about communications and he sent us on our way. Often times they will ask
where you were coming from or going to. Generally there would be two or three that checked your vehicle. One ask if I had anyone in the back of my van and I said no, just a couple of wheelchairs. He took a quick look and sent us on our way.
When we leave here we will be going to Lordsburg, NM to see our friend Harry. That is a bit close to Mexico, too close for me, but we will be going on east across I10 and that gets really close to the border. We will not be stopping after we leave Lordsburg for a
quite a while as we can get over 500 miles without refueling. that should put us into Texas and out of harms way, as far as the border is concerned.