Bunnyhop, the trip has been great, you never know what is coming next.
In my best Pulp Fiction Samuel L Jackson voice…
….Example?
Over breakfast Barbara told me a tale of a trip that would make Indiana Jones look like a wimp. She and Kurt were trekking along the Pacific Crest Trail…….on llamas. Somehow Barbara fell from her ride and over a three hundred foot cliff. Miraculously her bum bag snagged on the only tree half way down breaking her fall.
Kurt managed to abseil down to her, release her from the tree and continue down the cliff. They made it to hospital. She had broken no bones so the hospital released her despite her protests of pain. She says the story sounded too fantastic to be true, she felt dismissed as a crank.
Her dentist confirmed not only that she had dislocated her jaw, but that she had fractured all her molars.
It took two years of undiagnosed pain before surgery revealed the bum bag strap had ruptured her colon in the fall. It had become infected, she had peritonitis and six feet of her bowel needed removal. There had been further complications in that surgery that led to spinal problems, but she had made a remarkable recovery. an inspirational woman.
I didn’t mention my frost bitten thumb tips as I headed off towards Independence.