SDRAWKCAB

Today (March 27), I read that our still-healthy cruise ship ROTTERDAM, which now has no passengers on board, is steaming to the aid of ZAANDAM with supplies, crew and COVIC-19 test kits.  "Flu-like" symptoms and cases have 77 passengers and crew ill on that ship. Good news for us about ROTTERDAM remaining symptom-free 2+ weeks after we disembarked, but given our anxiety level the last few days aboard her just hoping no one would get ill, our hearts go out to the passengers and crew on ZAANDAM. 

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My post dated March 14 concluded those for our trip from Ft. Lauderdale to San Diego.  It felt good to complete that series since my track record for our prior two trips was less than stellar.

Although I wrote the last sentence in the past tense, it should be the present tense.  I have yet to complete the final post or two (or three) for both our trip to several parks in the Southwest USA last spring and our trip down some of America's famous rivers last fall.  

I have all my notes and have converted most of them to text, so all I need to do is add a sentence or two here and there, incorporate some pictures and hit POST.  How hard could that be?  Oh, wait, if it was that easy, I'd have gotten them done months ago instead of repetitiously repeated 'rescheduling' the task. In addition to a busy life, I will confess that contrary to my usual modus operandi, when it has come to those two blogs, I have been stuck in the closed loop of  "Procrastination is the future of tomorrow."  Curious since I enjoy writing posts.

Self-quarantining has given me an excellent opportunity to do them. (Hey, how's that for positive thinking about being stuck in the house!)  

My goal is to complete the two unfinished sagas at the rate of one post per day, beginning with the more recent rivers trip.  If you are wondering why I am going sdrawkcab in time rather than starting with the spring trip and coming forward to the fall trip, there is no profound symbolism or deep psychological reasoning behind my decision. Au contraire, it is pure practicality.  If I start with the spring trip, I need to finish writing a post to put up tomorrow.  If I start with the fall trip, I already have a number of posts done giving me more time to finish the rest for both trips. Could this be a way to further procrastinate on writing the remainder?  I would call it a buffer should my muse occasionally go on walkabout during the project.  The goal remains, a total of 21 posts in the next 21 days.

If being self-quarantined has made you so desperate for things to do that you're reading the ingredients label on canned corn, my posts for those trips may be marginally more interesting. 

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Ohio, Cumberland and Mississippi Rivers Trip (Fall 2019)

Bryce, Grand and Zion National Parks Trip (Spring 2019)

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