So far so good on my eye treatments!! My vision has not gotten any worse, but do
still get headaches which I am sure is from the old glasses that haven’t yet
been corrected. They say that they don’t
want to prescribe a new pair of glasses until they get my vision settled down. I do have one more appointment this month before
we head to Arizona. At that time, I will
have more tests and the doctor will tell me how often I will have to continue
the treatments. I will then know whether
he will have me get new glasses (or not).
With all of that said, I had no problem with my vision in Alaska fishing
this year.
We spent September 8-16 in Yakutat, Alaska, and I wore my
glasses the whole time….usually, I wear contacts, but with having treatments in
the left eye, I didn’t want to compromise it.
Yes, we had rain, but with my rain cap and rain jacket hood on, I kept
the rain off of my face and glasses. It
really was not that bad because on 3 of the 5 days we were out on the river, we
were done fishing before the heavy rains hit.
We were quite surprised at the warmer than usual temps (mid 50s) while
out on the river. There was one day that
I got a little cold (and damp), but again we were done before 1 pm so it wasn’t
that bad. This was an unusual year
because in the mornings as the tide was out, we drug the boat down to the river’s
edge, but when we came back in after fishing, the tide was high, so all we had
to do was float the boat up to where we tied it off and left it for the next
morning. That was great because normally, we would have
to pull it back up the hill to tie it off. In the picture below, the boat is near where we keep it and the tide is at mid point. We had to drag it a lot further down than what this is showing.
On one of days that we didn’t fish, we decided to drive out
to a day use area and find a geocache.
On the way out there (on a gravel road) we almost hit a huge Bull Moose
(actually, he almost hit us). The sides
of the road are mostly brush with some hidden side roads and this Moose came
running out onto our road from one of those side roads. After Ken slammed on the brakes and I managed
to pick my purse up off the floor and find my phone (camera), I did get a
couple pictures of the Moose.
Thankfully, he saw us and veered on up the road and we followed him for
a hundred yards or more…. He did not even slow down!!! Yes, we found the geocache too and no one was
hurt!!
After we got back to Salem, our time was spent getting stuff done on the coach in preparation of heading to Arizona at the end of October. Ken had several projects going on inside and outside of the coach, then the final step was the annual service and new batteries. We also had to finish up on getting the rest of our Europe trip taken care of and figuring out all we are going to need. We will mostly have the stuff with us in Arizona, but will have one last time to pick stuff up from home when we are back during Christmas.
