Two years ago when I sold my car and started riding the bus and trains, there were bits of apprehension that I would not be able to cover the same amount of ground as I did with my wagon wheel while driving. Each spoke of the wagon wheel was a 18-mile trip up, 6 miles across and back the other side of the 18-mile spoke. In 6-8 weeks I could cover the entire Metroplex and all 5 counties.
Thursday, on one of my discovery missions, I happened, by chance, to take a bus that I normally do not use. Because of the delays that the shortage of bus drivers has caused nationwide, I used the bus mentioned above. Within the first 20-minutes of the route I was sitting up and paying great attention to the route. The overall route was about and hour and a quarter to a half and had filled in 18 pieces of the puzzle that I had not been able to complete thus far since starting the use of the bus and trains.
Once home, I was able to look at the GPS locations and compare them to what I had been able to cover in the past via car. As it now stands, there is only one big void that I cannot cover at present. However, if the bullet train gets built in the next three years, I might be able to cover that area before I start pushing up daisies. Already, for the duration of the upcoming summer and early fall, it should be a good shoot season with this discovery.
Having been a bike rider for years prior to my hospital stays my new bike was almost without miles with only a couple of small trips. Then, due to medical errors in the hospital, I had to walk with a cane for nearly 6 months and as I healed, my balance was a bit off so I left the bike at home and walked to strengthen leg mussels. Even though all the buses and trains have bike carriers. So, as the bike sat in my living room, moving it back and forth to vacuum I got a couple of snakebites in the tubes. If I decide that I want to see if I can still ride, getting the tire tube issues repairs will need to come first. Health wise, I'm in excellent shape if the balance issue proves that it is safe to return to riding, then I will. Ideally, it would be even greater to cover even more ground in a joint venture with bus-train riding with biking. We will see how some of this works out. I will not over do and end up back in the hospital for sure.
This past month has been a great month of better than normal sales since the pandemic. Things seem to be recovering and as I tell my brother, "once you create the beast you have to feed it". In this case, with new and creative shots that graphic people like to use.
I'm back to shooting 100-150 images on each outing again. That seems to be a lot after the pandemic slowed things, then my hospital stays was more rowdy to keep things slow, but the past couple of months the images are turning out pretty well. I did have a technical problem with the big camera that I didn't notice was happening, but I have since corrected that issue.
It's been house cleaning time with both the web pages and the blog page. Yet, I've cleanedup of things for our viewers and readers. Outside of not having any problems staying busy, I'm blessed by the Grace of the Lord.
Stay tuned. It has really been a good year thus far. Hopefully, you might enjoy some of the things we will be working on this summer.
