We’ve settled in at Dave’s parents’ house in Golden. His parents drove down from their Wisconsin home with Dave’s grandmother and we’re all here enjoying watching autumn blow in. I’ve had my right arm in a sling for two and a half weeks, so I’ve got a couple more weeks to go. Typing takes quite a bit longer with just my left hand, but I’ve gotten some work done on the back end of the website and have more in the works.

While Dave heads out for bike rides in the foothills surrounding the development, I’ve been on some good little hikes, though after a couple of hours my shoulder hurts pretty good from the jostling. I’ve also found a real gem in the Golden community center in town, as they’ve recently added on a huge new gym with all the fixins for a good workout as well as machines for rehabbing my shoulder. For now I’m doing intervals on the recumbent bike, but I look forward to doing more once I get out of this sling.

Current ideas in the works for upcoming adventures include a shortened version of our West Africa bike tour starting after the first of the year, though we’d have to give up some of the route we had wanted to do since we’ll have less time to ride before the heat of summer sends us packing. There’s some talk of an early January hut-to-hut cross country ski trip with some of Dave’s friends if I’m ready. And we’re already looking ahead to next summer and the possibility of joining two friends for a kayak tour around Baranof Island in Alaska. We may also delay our Africa trip to early next fall so we could start in France and bike down through Spain to take a ferry to Morocco and do the entire West Africa route we had planned to be doing now.

So, lots to think about and plan while we’re waiting on my recovery. Anyone have any other ideas for us to consider?