Sunhats and Chardonnay is an email newsletter exploring the adventures of self-discovery through travel, retirement and mid-life matters. Some installments are free, some for paid subscribers only. Sign up here: Today is my day off. I was planning on doing something else today but after streaming an episode of “Fire Country” last night, an interesting topic came up.
We keep track of where we go, what we did and how we got there and back via our calendars. If there are more details, via photos we take and want to remember or share with others, then we write them down or keep photos as memories. Experiences, people we met and enjoyed, sights, places of special interest - not exactly a travelogue or an article for a travel magazine but sometimes a brief post which I did recently on a trip to 3 countries in South America - Brazil, Argentina and Chile. And now, being an ex-pat in Mexico, that is a kind of extended travel experience.
What's amusing is your "planning on doing something else today, but......" I had the same experience a few days ago when starting to write a new post here on Substack and ended up writing on piece on "Why We Write." Now I will try and go back and see what the "something else" was. I think it may have had to do with how we make an "impact" or what kind of "impression" we leave where we've been???
One of the ideas I have is to create a book and select one photo I like for each day. Write all the details about the photo. When, where, why, smell, feel etc.
Each time I see that photo, it will all come back.
I remember that episode!
Details from interesting conversations. Trying to get better at that.
That's another good one.
Remembering names has always been a challenge for me.
How many UNESCO sites, how many drinks, how many bad meals...
Oh, those are good.
We keep track of where we go, what we did and how we got there and back via our calendars. If there are more details, via photos we take and want to remember or share with others, then we write them down or keep photos as memories. Experiences, people we met and enjoyed, sights, places of special interest - not exactly a travelogue or an article for a travel magazine but sometimes a brief post which I did recently on a trip to 3 countries in South America - Brazil, Argentina and Chile. And now, being an ex-pat in Mexico, that is a kind of extended travel experience.
What's amusing is your "planning on doing something else today, but......" I had the same experience a few days ago when starting to write a new post here on Substack and ended up writing on piece on "Why We Write." Now I will try and go back and see what the "something else" was. I think it may have had to do with how we make an "impact" or what kind of "impression" we leave where we've been???
Great ideas.
One of the ideas I have is to create a book and select one photo I like for each day. Write all the details about the photo. When, where, why, smell, feel etc.
Each time I see that photo, it will all come back.