Where to now?

Looking into my cloudy crystal ball for the future of this blog. Where to go next? 

So unlike a lot of blogs, where the author(s) posts on current events, politics, hobbies or other newsworthy items on a regular basis, my blog posts will be triggered by events which get me out of my house for at least a day, and involve hiking, photography, or some other outdoor adventure. I wish I could guarantee posts at least on a weekly basis, but there will be gaps in my travel schedule, where I need to do more mundane tasks like medical related appointments (I’m old), financial tasks like paying taxes, and just hanging around and resting from long trips. I no longer seem to take vacations to relax – I need to recuperate after 12 days of hiking, or from jet lag.  I am writing this particular post on one of the down-time periods, and it may be a couple of weeks before I venture out and have anything of interest to post. The one thing I don’t want to happen is to lose interest, as I have done with a few blog attempts in the past, or to just had a short term site like I had with Half-Dome blog I launched 9 years ago.

Fortunately, I do have plans for more adventures in the next few months. Travel is a necessity for me – I hate being alone at home.  I am currently booked on a National Geographic trip to the Alaska Inner Passage in late August, Antarctica in November, and two interesting trips (more whales, Kodiak grizzly bears) so far in 2026. I’m also planning on a few semi-local trips in the area, places I have not been to and now have the time. I live in California, close to Nevada, and there may be one or two places I have not been to before. Plus, I have that big pile of travel catalogs to go thru for 2026 and beyond – Patagonia? Iceland? So many choices. And home is no longer where I want to be for very long – too many memories of a life I long for but can no longer have. Travel helps to fill that void. The life of a widower.