My travels and taking time
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 10:11PM Time to smell the roses. A comment that has been used so many times, and yet I never really gave it much thought. This past year I logged well over 40 thousand road miles. While this does not even come close to the airline travel I was logging in past years, it certainly is as much time spent.
In these drives I get alot of audiobook reading in, as well as podcasts. mainly technology based. I am learning all the time. Currently I am reading/listening to "Super Freakonomics" a book I had downloaded from Audible.com I am a gold member with them and it has been a lifesaver. I find I consume more books now than at any time in my life thanks to this excellent service. I do more frequently take time to stop and take picture now. I was recently in Halifax VA. I was actually off the beaten path back to a work location and got a neat picture that seemed to take me back to my childhood for a moment.
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It was next to some railroad tracks and it was just an image that for a moment reminded me of Appalachia VA when I was a little kid. The building just looked like something out of the very early 1900's, and the area surrounding it did too. I'm seeing alot of this these days and frankly I like it. I just need to take more time to capture it, and think about it. We all have very little time on this place. And much of what I do involves driving and downtime. I am making much better use of that time these days.
Reader Comments (2)
It seems that you are doing a great job of using your time. Planning. That is the trick. You are planning how you spend your downtime as well as traveling time. I commend you for this.
I too need to find more creative ways to plan my time. Since what I enjoy more than anything is writing, lately, I have been thinking of writing short stories about different events that has taken place in my life. A sort of journal but in story form to give to my children.
You can do a time journal with photos. I think that is excellent.
After reading that you grew up in the Appalachian part of the country as I did, I found an interesting article on the language that you might enjoy reading. I found it fascinating.
http://tinyurl.com/gyv67