I feel so much better right now physically than I have felt in years because I finally figured out that I am allergic to a bunch of different foods, and I am avoiding them like the plaque. Six months ago, I was maxed out on my Parkinsons’s medicine, and now I am taking none. Six months ago, I couldn’t sleep more than four hours at a time because of my muscle cramps and tremors, and now I can sleep 9 hours without waking up once. During the last bicycle trip, I thought that was my last trip, and now I am signed up to run a half marathon on April 6th, and I am going to leave on a 2400-mile bicycle trip with my brother and his wife on May 20th. Also, I am considering making a 6,000-mile bicycle trip by myself, unsupported, and hitting all lower 48 estates in 2025. At this point, I am just thinking about it and planning the route. At 75 years of age, health is a day-to-day thing, but I am very thankful for my relatively good health now, and I plan on bearing as much fruit as possible and having as much fun as possible until some health issue pops up, which could be any day.

My motto for my life is to control what I can control for maximum production and rejoice about the things I can’t control.