I slept well last night but didn't get up early enough to go out for a walk.
Right after breakfast, I headed up to Be'er Sheva, arriving there a while before noon. David was again feeling very good but still a little confused (as he has actually been for some time now). His bed is in the hallway diagonal from the nurses' station, and the nurses often hang around there, sometimes joking with each other. It's usually in Hebrew, but sometimes in Arabic or even Russian, depending on which nurses are there at any given moment. Of course, David doesn't understand ANY of what they say, but he laughs as though he did get their jokes because he's reacting to their gestures, tone of voice, and laughter. As far as he's concerned, they might as well be putting on a show for him.
He ate most of his lunch today, but he got full before finishing it, so I ate the rest of it for my lunch.
Today I drove both up and back on the Arava Road and through Dimona. I'm beginning to like that route quite well. On the way back, I took a detour to the Small Makhtesh. The road from the highway to it was mostly NOT paved, but it was quite smooth and easy to drive on most of the way. This is because it also leads to a lot of areas where there has been considerable moving of the dirt. I think it was or still is a phosphate mining operation, based on the name of the company (in Hebrew) that I saw on a sign.
I had been to the Small Makhtesh before, but from the UPPER side, looking down at it. This time, I was at the narrow canyon where the stream flows out of it -- in other words, at its very bottom. I had to park the car and hike a bit to get the view of the makhtesh (a crater that is NOT due to a volcano or a meteorite), but it was nice to see it, and it was only a short hike.
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