It has been a while since my last post. I have to plead being insanely busy as an excuse. I have been preoccupied with life. I am in Ecuador escaping the polar vortex that is terrorising Canada. I am with my wife and there is an eleven-kilometre long beach which calls to us every day. There are others in the community whom we know and with whom we interact.
We wander the streets of the village and say hola to the locals to whom we have become familiar faces. And then, there is my writing and editing work. In addition, there is a trip being planned for this autumn. Of course, I am using the trip as research for one or more new books yet to be written. I know, not much of an excuse at all.
It is this last item that has seriously been eating up my time. Together, we have decided on an August departure date and destination. We will leave Canada and land in Amsterdam. That should have been the easiest part, but to find a date for return plane tickets demanded that I know how long we needed to spend in the Netherlands, Belgium, Northwestern France, Luxembourg, and Western Germany. Of course, what did we want to see, and where would we book accommodations to make it happen? So, you see where this is going … it takes a lot of time to make this happen.
Yesterday, the first draft of our autumn trip was fleshed out. Now the pressure is off. To celebrate the result, I began to re-publish my books with Draft2Digital – D2D – so that I can sell my books through other portals such as Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, and several others. That will keep me busy for a few more days. I will publish the results in another post in the future. Interesting enough, I already sold a book through D2D even though I have just begun the process.
I will still be spending at the minimum three hours each day on the beach with my wife. We walk between eight and ten kilometres each day before taking time to play in the surf, dodging children and errant surfers who are learning to master the waves. As they say, life’s a beach.