New Year's Day through Tallahassee

01-10 January 2018

We woke up in San Antonio on a very cold New Year's Day. We headed east across Texas again,
zoomed across the Mississippi bridge this time, then had dinner at Parrain's on the Baton Rouge side. It was excellent and a much needed break. Since Heather was taking over driving duties I even had a couple of their specialty drinks - tasty but lethal. I wasn't much help navigating back to the freeway.

Back in the car after dinner, Heather drove on to Biloxi. We stayed at the Palace Casino, which is nice, cheap, and non-smoking (again remembering the nest egg principle). Had a good breakfast in the casino cafe in the morning, then back out into the cold, but with only a half day of driving to Tallahassee ahead.

We got to Tallahassee mid-afternoon and eventually unloaded the last of Chelsea's stuff, plus a couple of suitcases and such we didn't want any more.

The primary concern for this visit was to address the issues that kept Chelsea from traveling over the holidays. They seem to be mostly intestinal issues similar but not identical to those she overcame a few years ago with the help of the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix. A lot changed over a relatively short period of time after she finished her thesis last summer. This was exciting but also stressful to some degree - moving, new places, new people, new food (breaded and deep fried green beans are my new favorite vegetable), and the stress of the new doctoral program. She has been doing the work, but there's questions about her ability to keep their pace. A lot of changes.

Her boyfriend Travis has been doing everything to take care of her. He has a new job now so it's tough to juggle with Chelsea's medical appointments. After we arrived she had had one major procedure and was doing a little better, with solid plans for some additional tests and procedures to try and lock down what's going on in her gut.

I had been flirting with a cold since San Antonio and I finally went down after a few days in Tally. In spite of that, after about a week there we headed back to Brunswick to see the boat for the first time in two months.

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