I’ve spent most of my day seated cross-legged on my front step with my PowerBook as companion. All I’ve done is write, write and write. On occasion, I got up and walked barefoot through the grass just to find a sense of green.
I managed to finally:
- Uploaded some photos from my Scotland travel diary which, as you can see, is no small measure (if you click on the images, you’ll be taken to the larger shot where you can actually read the text, which is pretty cool):
- I’ve started writing out some of my notes from Scotland (a year later) in order to share them with you in the coming weeks.
- Mail out some gifts that had been wrapped and ready to go for the last three months.
- Got to Bridgehead for some more quiet writing time over an iced latte (am officially addicted).
And the highlight of my day was running into a very old friend who I’d not seen in around 8 years (she’d moved to Japan for two years and then to Italy). I was driving down the street when I whipped right past Doris and recognized her beautiful face and…oddly enough…her hair. I did a quick u-turn and we chatted for about 10 minutes, promising to get together very soon. Seeing her smile brought back a lot of memories and, erm, Duran Duran’s ’Come Undone’.
You’ll be seeing quite a bit of me over the next few days and so I hope you won’t tire too quickly.
In keeping with my once-in-a-while recommendations, a little rough rock n roll today. Download Stone Sour’s following five songs: Through Glass, Inhale, Bother, Blue Study, and Take A Number.
5 Comments:
Anonymous said…
OH MY GOD youre too cool,. I can’t belcieve that youre travel diary, how did you have time to enhjoy anyuthing maha????
I cant wait toi read all about it even if it was a;lst yeuar.
T
Sun Jun 18, 05:57:00 PM
just a girl said…
That’s funny you ask that because that’s what Dianna was wondering while we were travelling
Happy you’re looking forward to the dispatches.
xo
m
Sun Jun 18, 11:38:00 PM
Chester said…
That is totally the cool thing to do. I only post photos and text to my website, which I feel compelled to do because it’s the most direct way of sharing the trip with others, but it always feels less visceral of a process than doing something “analog”.
I’ve always loved the idea of travel journals, diaries, scrapbooks, etc. Especially love the idea of a sketchbook…except I can’t draw or paint.
So I’m probably never going to end up keeping a cool physical journal with glued-in scraps and all that cool stuff. I’ll probably go to the end of my days as a laptop computer and digital camera sort of guy.
A shame, as I have nice handwriting.
Wed Jul 26, 01:41:00 PM
just a girl said…
hey Chester!
You know, there’s something about the hand written word that I will always find seductive. I can’t help myself and I know that although I do all of my writing on my baby mac, I must do my travel writing on paper and with double sided tape at the ready!
When I go through the books again later, I’m immediately drawn right back into the day and the time and the location.
And if you really want to do it, then force yourself to do it. I was writing on the strangest spots; standing up against a wall, crouching down between standing stones, leaning over the side of a boat trying not to be sick…
And quite honestly, I don’t take a digital camera with me when I travel because I like the printed photo more so than the digital, in times of voyage. There remains an element of surprise to it that doesn’t exist with digital
I say: fight the digital, and embrace the pen (at least on your next trip > and start off in baby steps, by tackling this on your next weekend away…not on your 10 day holiday!).
hugs,
m
Sat Jul 29, 03:09:00 PM
Tommy of The Gays said…
From what I can see, Chester is hot!
I love travel journals but I never keep them either, but I stare at people who keep them. You’d be one of the bitches I’d stare at, anyway.
Tommy
Mon Aug 21, 02:34:00 PM