Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Roanoke

We are into the travel season.   Last month we visited the Carillion clinic in Roanoke VA.   It is a pretty town nestled in the Appalachia ‘mountains’, next to the Blue Ridge Parkway:

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A few years ago the area physicians and hospital merged into a Mayo clinic like model, and are now looking for an epileptologist.  This is their main hospital:

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This is some clueless tourist VannaWhiteing the new medical school they just built across the road:

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We took a bike ride along a pretty bike path that goes along the river that runs through town:   DSCN4174

And drove a bit on the Blue ridge Parkway:

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We are going back for a second visit in a few weeks, along with a visit to teaching hospital in Chapel Hill NC.   This week we are taking a second visit back to Salt Lake, and finally (we think) a visit to another teaching hospital in Hershey PA in July.   

Last weekend we visited one of the finger lakes with our friends from Philadelphia:

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Yesterday we visited the local rose garden, which is in full bloom.   Mom and Dad, Helen insisted on her annual ‘Bruce in the roses’ picture, so here it is:

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Love, Bruce