Travel, write, repeat. That has been the procedure for this year, though that’s not all that happens, of course. Sometimes, I’m unable to fill the spaces between, case in point, the days since our trip from two weeks ago up to this Friday, when we are leaving for another shorty. And so, instead of continuing with what I’ve been working on, namely my writing and photography, I turn to this page to share a tidbit or other.

For one, I have been making progress on my long ongoing project to update old pages and travel stories on this blog. I added photos and narratives to events back in 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009, and likely some random posts in between here and there. The subject is almost always travel-related because back in the era of poor bandwidth, I was only posting between 1 and 3 photos of our adventures while I might have shot hundreds of photos worth sharing. These days, I have been focusing on a road trip with my mother-in-law Jutta to the Pacific Northwest in 2005, our first trip to Hawaii in 2006, a neglected trip to Oregon in 2008, and a short jaunt down to the Florida Keys in 2009, and spent time where I could find it refreshing those posts.

Consider this photo from Siletz Bay in Oregon, taken on November 30th, 2008. I took this image and wrote a paragraph or two about the day; there are now 22 photos and 830 words to describe the events of the day. Funny enough, the page was only visited about 135 times before I updated it. I doubt it will ever see another 100 visits in my lifetime, so obviously, I’m not doing this for readers; it is a labor of love to better share experiences Caroline and I have been fortunate to have had. With a more complete record and narrative that follows the sequence of how the day progressed, we bask in the incredible luck and beauty we’ve shared.

Back in August, I offered a similar update of posts that I’d been working on, and I suspect that I’ll be doing these updates for a few more years. While I love this photo of Caroline snorkeling at the Dry Tortugas while we were camping out there in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico in 2009, this was just one of a few images that represented the day, which is now vastly improved, at least in my view. While I may not post as frequently as I’d like with entries that tell what’s going on as days go by, buried deep in nearly 3,000 missives are these reflections of what experiences were had in a golden age of travel.