Tuesday, October 13th, 2026

Traveling requires a bit of flexibility from your normal day-to-day schedule that you get used to while at home. When I am home for a while, I fall into a regular schedule. Walking the dogs in the morning, having my coffee, and writing in this journal and working out. All comes at a pretty normal schedule. Soon as we leave home, all of that gets replaced with a much more fluid schedule that is dependant on where we are and where we need to head for the day. Not a bad thing at all, but my default mode isn’t something I can fall back on. Today, we are in Denver. We drove up for a couple of days to see a concert tonight, and catch up with our kids. A nice short trip, before we head out of town for two months. Which every day will be a new schedule and the only routine is that there will not be much of a routine to be had for a while.

I have been getting better at learning how to be more flexible with my time while traveling. Embracing the lack of a defined routine. The more difficult thing is remembering to allocate time to the practices that I don’t want to lose while traveling. Such as writing, and working on learning Spanish. When we are traveling in Latin America the Spanish will be just an everyday thing, but taking time to write is something that I am going to need to keep up on. Fitting in time when I can. Even if what I am writing are little daily trip reports that will be good to keep up the practice. Being in a new location every day or two will provide me with fresh content. Which I hope will help train me to be better at noticing and capturing the world around me. This is something that I think will be important for also working on my photography.

Having my camera with me at all times while on the road will be a benefit, if I can get into the practice of remembering to pull it out of my bag. Years ago when I was more into photography if I had my camera it took a while, but eventually you start to see shots that you would ignore otherwise. It is somewhat of a fine line between having the camera being a burden to carry around, and something that just becomes the default mode. It will likely take me a few weeks to get back into the habit of carrying the camera everywhere. I hope I do, since I recall really enjoying the process of photography.