I make the site on an iPad with some pretty serious photography equipment. Currently, I’m in seat 26B of Southwest Airlines on the way to Orlando. I recently bought a new MacBook Air but I haven’t really even spent much time on it. My laptop is just a little bigger than the iPad I’m typing on now but it’s just not something I want to travel with, so I just took the iPad. I’m doing the same thing as I did with the Quantum of the Seas cruise we did in January, blogging about it on the fly, literally in this case.
Writing and photography gives me something to do, putting it all together, it’s fun. Typically people my age (65) don’t blog. It’s just what I do and I’ve been doing it since 1996. The devices, the software, putting it all together and pressing, “publish” and in this case adding to it as I go.
A family member is getting married, I’m giving her away in the wedding and it’s on a Disney cruise ship headed to Nassau in the Bahamas. I’m pretty stoked about it as my wife and two of my three sons are with me. I’m a full nerd to them. Whatever. I do what I do. On this trip, I just want to spend a little time with my family and that’s what I’m going to do.
I have the AirPods Max, blasting Angine de Poitrine, a Canadian math rock band that’s gone viral and taking the internet by storm. The AirPods Max are very popular on the plane and in the airport as they work very well to tune out the masses and zero in on just what you want to hear. Too bad they can’t tune out the little girl in the row behind me that is bugging the crap out of me. Flipping the tray up and down kicking the seat, every single minute of the hours long flight but the baby a few rows up? Tuned that constant screaming out. I dig my AirPod Max though. They keep me focused and at the same time, distracted.
Now I keep hearing about how Disney cruises are over the top in customer service, for adults. We are about to see. We land in Orlando tonight and tomorrow we board the Fantasy and debark. Traveling without a backpack this time. I bought an aluminum carry on roller. I’ve got my Nikon D780 in a camera bad and that slips over the handle. I’m traveling with six days of clothing plus a suit. I wanted to bring my trunk but my wife gave me the stink eye about so many bags in the cabin, it’s true so I just crammed it in the carry on roller. No silk pajamas, no gold lame’ turban with a red jewel, no fantasy on the Fantasy. We are going to bonefish heaven so I didn’t bring my travel tenkara rod either. Not that kind of story.
We are packed in like sardines, elbow to shoulder (I’m trying not to curse Karts) and it will be over soon, next step, get the XL LYFT to the hotel, get something to eat. The travel snacks are fine but the Nets and Jack Links teriyaki jerky aren’t good for my delicate constitution. I want a meal. I love a window seat on the plane, it’s dreamy to look out over the ocean of clouds. It reminds me of my time hang gliding.
[…in Progress]
