You may have noticed that there hasn’t been any new content here for several months, and for that I apologize. I can only say (rather lamely) “We’ve been busy.”
More than busy, we haven’t been home. Shortly after the last post we left on the delayed visit to Steve’s family following the death of his father. It was a trip fraught with potential emotional pitfalls, starting with the simple fact of walking into the home where he grew up - and for the first time in his life his dad isn’t there.
We ended up staying a month with his brother and spending time with his mother, time that they all needed. Because we drove - from our home on the Pacific Ocean to Alabama, with excursions to both the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic Ocean - we were gone a total of two months. About 9,000 miles by the time we were through, and 14 states. (For the record: Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Nevada.)
For what should be obvious reasons, I did not post about our travels on a public blog while we were away. We had a house sitter, but still … However, I did do a daily Patreon post on our travel days, with a lot of pictures of the things we saw driving across the southern part of the country. Over the next few weeks I will try to repost those adventures to this page, so I can share them with you.
I will also bring you some of the creativity posts that have been on my Patreon feed during the last few months. You can subscribe to that feed by clicking the button on the right, to get all my content and to get it at least two weeks before it appears here.
Thanks for waiting for me to return. I hope the next time we have an adventure it won’t take me away from the blog.
And now on to new content!