Monthly Archives: July 2023

Eight years!  I’ve published for eight years, 12 months a year, four times a month, each week. I haven’t missed but less than a handful of weeks. Sometimes, I’ve been a tad late, or early, but that comes out to somewhere around four hundred posts in the last eight years! I started out with rough drafts of 100 trip reports accumulated during the previous eight years, or so.  That was to be a couple of years that I planned of this, but I never thought I’d have the abundance of 400 somethings to say!

There are over six months of weekly material already in the works at this time. I’d suppose that there will be some adventure while those are brewing. We’re not quitting what we love to do. But, I’m going to attempt a change.

To put things in perspective, each of these posts requires me to make notes, and then, write while it is somewhat fresh, a draft. Then make a better draft and go over it, as I go along. There is a process sorting out and choosing which photos, sometimes out of hundreds and inserting them into the text. Then, I must often trim, or edit many photos, before I shrink them for publication. Then I must do the publication process with WordPress to place it all online. Of course I sleep on it and reread it another time before I push THE LAST button. I have spent at least eight to ten hours each week to get these to you, plus living the stuff.

I enjoy the writing, it’s very fun. We enjoy the photography and the time together. We are left with this archive of a significant piece of our life. It is not just a scrap album and some memories, but detailed accounts, which bring us right back. We’ll enjoy looking back on this for years to come. Also, we have a passionate desire to free bodies everywhere. This is something that we can do about that, person by person. We share our fun, we give. My point is that it has been worth it.

Still, I can spend just so much time writing each week, with all of my other interests. Sometimes, the quality is difficult to maintain with a deadline looming.

I have another writing project that I feel that I have to do for my family. It will happen over time, like this website has. It doesn’t require so much photography, or any publishing, just time to sort the thoughts out and then write. It has been put off for a few years and it has become time to act.

So, if I can break my habit of a weekly post, I intend to make some room to do my other project. I’m announcing that I may be missing a week here and there, from here on out. Maybe, I can pop shorter post in here and there, instead of the weekly epics? It’ll sort itself out.

I have been so very grateful for the approving response to our efforts and the opportunity to entertain, to have a gift to give and have it appreciated for many reasons.

So, we can’t stop being in nature, that just wouldn’t be right, the photography makes it even better, the writing is a journey in itself, we’re blessed and we’re looking forward to the continuation.

Happy Anniversary!

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