Fair Warning

If you expect there being only a matter of hours between Pam & I having an experience and your reading about it, anticipate being disappointed. Posts on our last two trips were day, weeks and alas I admit months late in being put up. 

I discovered that I enjoy spending more of my time on vacation vacationing and less time updating my blog.  I also discovered that I liked reliving a trip by writing about it after it was over. The contrary third discovery that I missed not putting up at least something about each day.


As I have on past trips, I expect to take real-time notes to including in posts; that part is usually easy.  It is expanding them and incorporating edited pictures that is time-consuming.  On this trip, I am going to try posting just a quick summary each day consisting of perhaps a paragraph of text and just a few pictures.  This should satisfy my need to put something up should anyone care to read it without chainsawing through time I want to spend on more demanding tasks that include reading a book, taking a nap, staring blankly out to sea and so forth.  When I get home, I will over a to-be-determined amount of time expand each post, hopefully before we leave for Alaska in mid-June.  

Will this new plan survive implementation for more than a few days?  I will commit to a definite maybe.  This cruise is not a 'busy' as the last two, but I there will be those pesky books, naps, etc. competing for my time.

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