Rykal's Retired and Traveling

Jan 11th 2021

Wow. 2020 is now hindsight! thank goodness.. been a hard year for many many americans with the collapsing economy, covid- 19, isolation in nursing homes and hospitals for the patients and residents, in the spring food and paper products shortages and many small business's going out of business. Thankfully, most of that has improved, but covid still rages and NH and hospital patients/residents are still isolated from their family and friends. My mom is quite depressed about never getting out of the assisted living home she is at. She had a near syncopal episode recently and ended up in ER (fortunately nothing was found to be wrong) but now is still required to stay in her room until later this week. Thank goodness she has her friends there and her brother to keep company when she isnt required to stay in her room.

Things have been pretty quiet around us. We stay around the campground mostly, but that gets old too. Have been to the local casino a couple of times but no luck on winning. We had to go to mexico this week as i developed a tender spot under one of my tooth crowns and with the recommendation of the neighbors i scheduled an appointment and ended up having 2 crowns and a root canal at one of the dentists in algodonas (supreme dental, dr luis)(cost $1020.00 for all). so far so good on that procedure. was not busy in mexico. i think they miss all the canadians who arent here this year. otherwise bought vanilla and came home. Thinking about having my implant started their also.

had a quiet christmas here. gathered up with beth and todd for dinner and a couple of games. and for new years eve they had a little golf cart parade here and we handed out jello shots and gathered with the neighbors behind us for the evening. fun night. got together with a couple we met yr 1 in belle park for dinner the other night. Frank and Rita. ate at holy smokes in downtown yuma. company good food not that great.

our 2020 year of travel. 14 states and 2 flights to Brads. stayed at all 3 of the boys places at some point in the year