escapism

 i think i've got shingles --- hope to consult with my m.d. tomorrow --- in the meantime, i can almost forget the itching and pain after walking for awhile --- so we went to east palisades and devils racecourse shoals --- not a great trail in some places but a fantastic bamboo grove and spectacular rock along the way as the river breaks through the northeast-southwest trending upthrust of great slabs of rock, all leaning to the northwest ---