and The Journey Continues...

So first I'll address my lack of writings.  In my original post I stated I would attempt to write/post once a week.  Well a great deal has happened and while I have not posted as I intended I have continued to write and perhaps that will aid me in the coming months.  Okay done.  Now on to more important and certainly more interesting topics.

It has been almost 12 years since I last lived in the Pacific Northwest.  Now in the year 2012 I find myself back in the Northwest for just over a month.  This time the move has been a little different.  This time I moved with my beautiful wife of almost 6 years, our two great dogs and yes, the darn cat Bo.  Twelve years ago this was a move just for me; no one else, just me.  It was a great move.  It offered me the world and I took it.  I learned more about the world than one can imagine and even a little about myself.  This move I suspect will be similar, though it has not been all about me, it has been about my family; so yes, maybe it is all about me.  Family, that is something I look forward to writing a great deal about...at a later time.

For now, to set some sort of expectation for the direction of future articles:

Over the last few months I came up with an idea for my writings which I thought was a great idea.  Toby, my wife, on the other hand mentioned that someone might have already come up with "that idea".  So I checked, and yes, SEVERAL people had come up with "that idea".  I found at least four or five with one quick online search.  Interestingly enough, all of them were blogs.  None of my online searches showed a "book" by this title.  So for those who perhaps know more about copy rights than I, you can educate me how to reserve this title for future use.

The concept/title......"the places I've been, the things I've seen, the people I've met".  Regardless, whether I someday publish a book or not, I like the concept and perhaps somewhere in these articles is a book worth reading, and therefore worth publishing.  Having recently been "published" in an article in Captain Miss Judy's fishing reports I no longer have to compete with my brother, who was published before he graduated from The University of Georgia..  Although Miss Judy has written of two of my fishing adventures, only one was written by me.  At any rate, I have finally been published.  Moving forward I will start with "the journey".  It served me well in 1995 and should serve well for now.

In the coming articles look for stories of days past accompanied with photos of those days and the memories they represent.  For now, a challenge, who can tell me what/where the two photos on the main page are?  I'll give you a hint, they are approximately 1,853 miles apart.  Not to mention they were taken, by me, some 8 or 9 years apart.  Good luck and I look forward to sharing some great adventures with you.

Have a great evening and a better tomorrow.......

as always,
bkd