Hi Art,

What I'm doing, actually, is trying to gather information about how to get to and from Elkins without a three or four hundred dollar taxi fare from Pittsburgh.

My doctor and I can determine my fitness for travelling closer to the date. I live in hilly terrain and have been negotiating a steep, corrugated concrete driveway and twenty-six stairs to go to medical appointments since the day of surgery. At this point, I have a boot cast, a manual wheelchair and a walker at my disposal. I will not go without medical leave, but I need to get all my plans in place in order to be able to go at all if I am pronounced able. I am working with a sports medicine surgeon and a dedicated physical therapist and I have been ambulatory all of my life before this accident, even though I have cerebral palsy. I may be declared fully weight-bearing as soon as July 10th (then again, I may not -- that's why I mentioned it).

It's no good telling me I can go next year: I signed up this year specifically because I wanted to work with Finest Kind, who were last there three or four years ago. So I still want to hear who might be going, how they are getting there and whether anyone would be willing to pick me up somewhere en route. The following weekend I will be going to Taos, New Mexico, fracture or no fracture, for a meditation retreat.

Sharyn