So, What’s This Blog About?

This blog started as an attempt to share my two favorite things: Travel and Photography, but it has evolved into anything that I want it to be.  That’s the upside of not being paid for your efforts.

Travel and Photography
I quickly discovered blogging can be a really great alternative to sending postcards.  No need to have the correct currency for purchasing stamps, no searching for mail boxes in unfamiliar places, plus the images you share are what you have actually seen while traveling.

Blogging is far easier than emailing, especially if you are sending photographs.  I learned the hard way that if you send a photo in ONE email to multiple recipients, your usage is calculated by multiplying the size of that attachment times the number of recipients.  When you blog, you only burn through the MBs it takes to upload and post the attachments. BIG difference, especially if you are blogging from someplace without free internet or with a very SLOW connection.

My blog has become a way to stay in touch with my family and friends while traveling–to share the excitement I feel when discovering new places, people and cultures with those who, for whatever reason, don’t wander as much as I do.

I will confess to being concerned that my blog might appear to be too “look at me, look at ME and what I’m doing”.  I also recognize that my life might not be so fascinating to others.  Sometimes it isn’t all that fascinating to ME, if the truth be told.

Whatever I want it to be
Then I discovered other bloggers.  It took a little effort to slog through all those financial blogs to find the retirement ones focused on making the most of this wonderful and exciting stage of life.  And I realized that I thoroughly enjoyed how my new virtual buddies shared their thoughts, experiences, travels, photos.  I’m following a diverse group of essayists, humorists, travelers and photographers. That made me think that maybe, just maybe, others would enjoy my contributions as much as I enjoy theirs, and helped me get over my New England reticence.

Why “Destination Now”?
One day when that great source of deep philosophical truth– my GPS– announced “You have arrived at your destination; the route guidance is now over”, I thought:  “Yeah–that’s it!  I have arrived.  Up to now my life had been externally structured by parents, teachers, employers.  But Yee-Haw, I’m on my own now so I can create my structure–as much or as little as I want.  That’s the Destination part.  The Now part is a reminder to focus on the present and make the most of every day.

There you have it.  Thanks for visiting!