Well....

That was a five star restaurant quality cluster. Since we weren’t supposed to be back til Labor Day, you can see that something went wrong with our vacation.

We knew that Sue’s broken foot could be an issue, but we decided to push on regardless. On the first day (freeway to Baker City OR) it did pretty well since she was able to use the cruise control and keep pressure off the foot for long periods.

Day 2, however, was lots of mountain driving (north through the Wallowa Mountains and through Joseph and Enterprise OR) and that was a problem. She was really hurting by the time we got to Lewiston and, since I am not medically cleared to drive for a while due to the defibrillator firing, a decision had to be made.

From 30 years as a project manager, I know how to make a tough call and live with the consequences, mostly by refusing to second-guess myself once it is made. But there really wasn’t an option – I was not going to force Sue to endure a lot of pain for the trip, period. So we got a hotel room in Pullman WA (never have been there before) and headed for home via I-90 the next day.

My folder of Vacation 2018 consists of precisely three pictures. But we’re back safe and Sue will be able to rest her foot for the rest of the week since she doesn’t head back to work til Tuesday. And the weather looks good for a few days, so the upside is that I should be able to resume my modelling activities, including some decal work to complete the two models shown on this blog before we left. So all is not lost here in 72 Land!

Here is a shot from the one stop that we did make during the Wallowa Mountains crossing, at the Hells Canyon overlook.