Thanksgiving was very simple this year. Tim and I had decided that it would be just the two of us and that we would order our dinner from King Soopers.
It was very strange for me. Although I can’t deny that I loved the simplicity of it, it was strange not to cook or go out to eat. I did purchase a jar of sauerkraut – I can’t have Thanksgiving without that Baltimore tradition!
After I returned from my West Coast Train Trip, I started a project that I had been putting off for two years. It was time to get my “digital life” in order. I organized photos and maps and created copies where ones were missing. I even organized all my digital national park passport stamps, as well as my national park entrance signs. No one else may ever look at my photos, but I wanted to do this for myself.
Maps, Passport Stamps, and Entrance Signs
I’m also sorry now that I never took the time to scan the thousands of slides that I had taken prior to obtaining my first digital camera. I saved a few hundred, mostly slides with people, and tossed the rest when we downsized before traveling full-time in our RV. Oh well, it is what it is, and I can’t change it now.
With extra time on my hands, I also decided to finish my Wide Open Spaces blog to bring it up-to-date through 2008 and into 2009 when Tim proposed to me. This blog covered my adventures in the west starting in 2007, but I had never quite finished it.
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| Wide Open Spaces Blog |
After completing that blog, I surprised myself by deciding to re-create my Westward Ho! blog, which I had barely started. I had only written the introduction for that one, so it was a bit of a challenge to write about that trip. Westward Ho! covered my adventures in the west between 2006 and 2007, prior to the start of my Wide Open Spaces blog. Luckily, I had written some entries in Word, so that helped, as did the photos that I had labeled.
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| Westward Ho! Blog |
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| Retirement Road Trip Blog |
