Hitting limits
Thinking about priorities the last few days. At least, in regards to writing. Specifically, writing this bloggy journal thing. The wi-fi here in this house in Provence is fine for most things. But it is getting badly hung up when trying to create Squarespace pages, especially when uploading photos. Generally, the way things work in Squarespace is great when one has a snappy internet connection. However, while I’m waiting and waiting if I switch to a different tab, or even scroll the page and write, the unloading stops and must be restarted. Maybe there’s another way, but I’m not here to google Squarespace tricks. It gets to the point that posting a simple set of five or six pics with some text ends up taking all day because it didn’t work the first time, so we re-log in and do it again, and it hangs, and by then we’re heading to the market or some town and we come back with more thoughts and more pictures and I have a backlog that isn’t going to happen. Sketches and drawings and random thoughts that took place on June 16 and now here it is June 20.
I conceived of this as an alternative to Instagram, but it’s not working out that way. Basically, neither Sacha nor I want to sit around the house in the South of France all day trying to wrangle tech. So if you’re reading this, keep the page bookmarked and check in again. I’ll put a few pics up here now.
the Gorge du Verdon, click to embiggen
Rob, Kevin, Meredith, Jeff
Tomorrow is a week since we arrived. Sacha’s been more or less sick all week, some days staying bed and some days getting out and about (above picture: out and about). We had a great day on the Verdon Gorge, rented a boat, drove up a windy road, walked around Moustiers Ste Marie. Our house guests, Kevin & Rob and Meredith & Jeff, have been with us this week. We’re going to Nîce on Friday with them, staying two nights there and returning on Sunday for a quiet evening before my brother and his family and Wilson and his partner RJ appear on Monday afternoon.
Here’s one more picture of me on a bike ride from yesterday, taken by a nice man from Belgium. It was a lovely ride, though a smoggy. We got a bit of rain yesterday and the raindrops left spatters of dirt (!) on the bike, and on cars, and it was weird. Overnight we got a good soaking, which seemed to clean everything off.
In Tourtour
I’m going to close this laptop now and go see a waterfall. And maybe have a croissant. And maybe I’ll post some more. Maybe I’ll just save it all for when I return and put it up on the Flickr or something. A bientôt!