VINTAGE VENTURES: The reason I write my travel journals is to be able to look back and remember our ventures. A secondary reason is to allow me to organize all my trip photos. I have thousands of photos. Organizing them into a travelogue made sense. The trick was to figure out how to organize all these photos and journals into a cohesive story. My early attempts failed miserably because I couldn't figure out how to meld photos and text into a structure that worked. It was when Wanda came across the Constant Contact format that allowed me to develop a coherent story of our trips, and to be able to send them to friends, family, and anybody else that was interested.
So, I have decided to go back to 2014, when we started our travels in earnest, and re-organize them utilizing the Constant Contact format. This first trip was to Holland, Germany, and Austria. My sister, Diane, and her husband, Heinrich, reside in Germany. They have a wonderful Mercedes RV and they invited us to accompany them on a European trip. Wanda and I were still working, although I was down to part-time. I was also playing nearly every weekend in a band, so it was tough to carve out two weeks to jet over to Europe. We did find time, and an obsession was born.
It is my plan to take each of these early trips, which I call, Vintage Ventures, and collate them into Constant Contact. Unfortunately, on our first few trips my writing was sparse. I was mostly interested in photography, so I let my photos tell the story. Still, I hope you find some value in them, even though they are, well, vintage.
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