Our first leg

We are in Swarthmore, PA -  the first stop in our journey to Boulder. We stayed last night at Wallace's, and had breakfast this morning with Harry and Sarah, at Hereford Place, in Lansdowne.  We just took a walk with Sarah, and Trey, along Darby Creek. But it was very cold and blustery, so we didn't stay out long.

We learned yesterday, in an email from Rob, that Betsey has developed shingles.  Not uncommon for someone on chemo with a compromised immune system. It is evidently not a bad case, but it must be uncomfortable for her.  The medical advice we have received is that we are not at risk to get shingles from Betsey. If we had not had chicken-pox, we could get that, but you can't "catch" shingles from someone. Shingles erupts in your body as the result of a breakdown in your immune system. Neither of us have been vaccinated for shingles, but for someone my age, it is not very effective anyway, and in any case, it takes a few weeks for the vaccination to work. So we'll proceed as planned. 

              Walking along Darby Creek