Home sweet Home / Hurry up and Hike

I couldn't decide on a title- in fact I had about 5 that I wanted to use.
After an exhausting day yesterday, we were reunited with our "home" at 7 pm.    On Saturday I had called the RV park that we are staying at here to tell them that we would probably not arrive until Tuesday.  They had no problem holding the reservation for us. Sunday we checked in to a nearby  hotel, went out to dinner, and did our laundry.  Fun day, but not as "fun" as yesterday!
   Our doctor appointments started yesterday at 8:15 am and ended at 4:30 pm. Whew.  We sure did cram a lot of things into one day.  We both  almost escaped with a clean bill of health, but one of my doctors wrecked it.  Both of our physicals went fine, with our doctors telling us to go off and have fun for another year.  But the specialist who looked at my foot put the brakes on our footloose and fancy free ideas.  Apparently I need surgery to rebuild the joint that connects the big toe to the foot.  If I wait too long to do the surgery, it will be a joint replacement instead of a joint rebuilding project.  This isn't a total surprise to us, and its part of the reason I brought Paul in to see the doctor with me, so we could both hear the options.  We've pretty much decided that it would be smarter to do this now rather than risk more injury.  Thats where the "hurry up and hike" part comes into play.  When I said "now"  I really meant " a little later". We're going to spend the next month hiking the UP and across Minnesota, and then swing back down here.  I'll be stuck in one place for at least a month, with no traveling, so I'd like to see a little more before I do that.  We'll have to figure out the logistics of where we can stay etc. 
    In between doctors appointments, we talked to Keystone several times and after misunderstandings with our RV dealer here, we finally made arrangements for the Everest to be delivered to the dealer last night.  We even got a call from the driver while he was enroute, to confirm.   Paul's day was even crazier than mine because while I was at the doctors, he had to throw everything, including the cat, into the truck and check out of the hotel.  It was too hot to leave the cat in the truck, so one of us had to stay with the truck until we got the Everest- but!  It was so nice to have our own bed to sleep in!!
    Today was another flurry of appointments- some doctors, some other things.  Tomorrow there are even more appointments.  We're so busy with business stuff, the first time we'll get to see friends is this Thursday.