Lord, I hope this works.

Trying this one more time.

Still dealing with COVID here, but trying to get a little something accomplished.

Fever has finally broken but this latest phase has nearly everything leaving a horrible metallic aftertaste in my mouth..so bad last night I could not sleep.

Got home about 20 hours ago after a brutal 36 hours of travel. Went straight to the doctor and tested positive for COVID and influenza A, me with a fever of 102°. Once home, I went straight to bed. Feeling a little better this morning, but still everything aches and my fever is down to about 101°.

The last straw in this travel nightmare was that we were unable to land in Cedar Rapids as planned because of a thunderstorm and had to divert to Des Moines, where they performed maintenance on the plane and then refueled and got us back to Cedar Rapids about an hour and a half later than planned.

Pushing back from the gate for a 24-minute flight to CR

Got diverted from CID due to a storm in CR. Waiting for maintenance and fuel before we can head to CR now.

Flying home to CID

Then a couple hours at the airport in Fairbanks and an eight hour flight to Minneapolis.

Made the 4.09 mile, nearly 3 hour walk from Denali visitor center back to our hotel… I loved it. Met some nice “locals” and found all the geocaches on my target list.