A Complete Debacle

Well, I learned something important over the long weekend: trying to eat right and exercise while on the road is virtually impossible.

First of all, the food. Since I spent most of my driving time going through Nebraska, it seems like almost everything I saw on a plate (as opposed to a fast-food place, which I tried to avoid) looked like this:

This is your typical American STACK-OF-FOOD, and it was ever-present. You can't find anything else in Ogallala, North Platte, Kearney or Lexington - and it was pretty well-represented in Lincoln and Omaha as well. No wonder everyone there looked like I do...

As for the exercise; after 10 hours a day on the road, there was no walking in my life. The end result is that my legs were killing me, and I felt like I had gout or something. What a mess! I'm going to have to find a way to deal with this sort of thing, because I have to do this traveling more often, but the result (to my body) is horrible. And I'm not going to be able to do this after the surgery.

-sd