My brother Dylan;
is in the ICU at Cedars-Sinai on a respirator and conscious sedation. A couple days ago, he went in to the ER because he was so sick that he could barely breath. Seems that an abscess was somewhere in his trachea/bronchia, and he ended up having an emergency surgery.
I'm off to SoCal to be with my family and see what is going on.
The Big Dummy is loaded up.
I hope to be able to use AmTrak and make the 9hr train ride down south to Union Station.
the trip is has no definitive duration. i have no idea when i will be back. A trip to Ventura is probably on the agenda. Simply to go back and visit my grandparents and dad. lets hope that goes well.
Dylan being in the ICU, obviously is a bummer. Crazy kid. I hope he will be well. Just the other day, as the Big Dummy arrived, built up, etc. i had converted the Xtracycle rig back to a regular MTB complete with BOB Trailer, mostly for his use. As I've been trying for so long to entice him into a touring trip.
or if nothing else, just a trip up here to Monterey, where the air is clean, the locale pleasant, and Big Sur so close. a great place to ride bikes, and be outside.
for now, instead I am going back down south. lets hope that he has a speedy recovery and maybe sometime this year he can be on the bike.
peace....d