A Rough Start

My travel journals have been written during each trip for an audience to read. Because it is sometimes too much to consider the multitude, public speakers, actors, musicians sometime play to one person in the audience. They do this a tool to help focus their mind upon an attainable objective - that the one person get and understand the communication intended. This person has a special role they may not even be aware of. They must be there for the speaker so that the rest of the audience can then come along for the ride.

All of my writing in during travel, and all of the hundreds of photos taken, have been undertaken with an audience of one in mind. This blog was created for that audience of one. There is email of the same content sent to about 50 people, but one name is always the first one I type.

We begin our trip on Saturday, October 20, but yesterday, October 3, profoundly affected the character of the trip when my special audience of one, my dear 99 year old grandfather I call Popo died. I am not sure who will succeed him in that role. I am sure that it will be much more difficult to write without him there to read it.