Days are getting shorter

Tomorrow is the first day of Fall and we just had a harvest moon.  We took a trip to Carmel last weekend to meet up with a couple from my housestaff days in Seattle--Pate and Judy Thomson from Berkeley.  Pate is a cardiologist who is "retired" but is working as a volunteer in a free clinic.  We had a great few days seeing old haunts since I had come to Carmel almost every year for medical meetings when I was living in Denver. A few pics from this trip have been posted here. 

We leave Carlsbad next Tuesday to drive to Zion in Utah.  We will spend the rest of the week there and hope to see Zion, Bryce, and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.  It has been a long time since I have been there and Val hasn't ever been there.  I'm hoping the government will remain functional so that the National Parks will be open when we get there, but the Republicans seem intent on shutting the government down. Typical.

From Zion we will go to meet the Teigen's friends and family for a week on their houseboat on Lake Powell.  We are really looking forward to this.  Neither Val nor I have ever been there. Also, Don and Gale Sturdevant will be on the boat and it has been a long time since I have spent any time with them and they have never met Val. 

After that week, we will drive back to Texas and hope to get there by October 8.  Sally's brother Jimmy and Teresa are planning to come by our Condo in Texas about a week later.  That should be really fun.