Back in the...Recliner

Well, I’m home from my three-week trip across the southern half of the US. I saw a lot of places and took a lot of photos, which is my other sort-of-creative pursuit. I learned a great deal about photography on this trip, since for the first time I’ve been working with semi-professional camera gear. Maybe I’ll write a separate blog entry about photography. Also about the many problems my lemon of an RV had along the way.

I got about one week of writing done in the course of a three-week trip. This was due to the following excuses:

• Lots of driving in a given day
• The resulting tiredness
• Heat, since it was, you know, the South in summer
• Vehicle problems
• Photography with more sophisticated cameras than ever before
• A multi-city hunt for hard-to-find camera lenses

Obviously none of these excuses are worth a damn, with the possible exception of photography, which is at least a semi-creative pursuit. I’m not one of those people who views it as an art form, though, since it’s so much easier than, say, sculpture or painting or even writing. But it’s still worthy, in my opinion, and you have to get the shots when you spot them. Or maybe that’s pure rationalization, which is probably the case since it’s the less comfortable interpretation.

Rationale and rationalization aside, writing one week out of three is a clear violation of Rule #1: Write every day.

What am I doing about it? I’ll tell you tomorrow.