Mum came through Japan in February enroute back to Oz for a few weeks to tidy up a few family and personal items, get another visa and head back to India. She looked tiny and was probably too thin but she was as bright as a button and ready to go back as soon as she could. She did the battery of health checks and apart from needing a bit more meat on the bones, the doctors are pretty much unanimous that whatever she is doing, keep doing it!
So at 76, she lives by herself in a distant land in very basic condtions, will likely as not jump in the back of a truck to go to some even more basic place just to see it and because she is invited. A lesson to us all that geting older doesn’t mean getting complacent.
I’m scolding her to write more.