The last thing I remember, I was checking email. I opened my Writer’s Market newsletter. They had a link to regional magazines and I went to the site to check some of them out. I was pleased with the list and started a new section in my One Note to hold the information of the most interesting ones.

Somehow, something, led me from there to the Roadtrips we have planned for the summer and fall. Somehow I began looking at our September trip. I think I was checking dates. Something to do with a writing workshop in September. I went to the Combat Camera site and got lost in the forests of Vacationland.

I became engrossed with things to do in Charleston. I did resist the impulse to actually buy Charleston city bus passes, but I’ve got a new folder in my bookmarks with the page for doing it and links to likely hotels along the proposed route from there to Washington and back home. Plus several points of interest in Charleston. I made a folder on my desktop as well, with bus schedules and a trolley route map. I do love planning Roadtrips.

As I moved on to Mapquest and laying out the route, they’ve added some cool new features to their website. I had to set up a new profile, then I got sidetracked again when I realized the map I had saved there for the July trip to Montana wasn’t right. I deleted the whole thing and re-entered it. Then went to our Roadtrip website to embed the new one and hit a computer glitch.

The map is there on Mapquest in all its glory. They give me the code to put on the page, just a simple copy paste. I did it exactly like always, and got a blank page. In the editor, it shows the code, but the page doesn’t display the map. I wrestled with it for more than an hour and finally gave up when I looked at the clock and realized I’d thrown away a whole day without accomplishing anything on my goals list.

Now, I must get back to work because tomorrow will not be my usual Saturday catch up day. Tomorrow’s event was supposed to be my post for today.  I guess it will be next week instead.  We have plans for a photo club outing. We’re off to the the civil war “Battle of Sacramento” re-enactment. Lots of photo ops and a mini-roadtrip. Yay!  See some examples from our 2007 expedition below.  Re-enactors  love having their photo taken.  Come join us. Two days of fun, this Saturday and Sunday.