2001 - 2011 - Travels and Photos

2001 - 2011:  We did a lot of traveling, some just us, some with our grown or almost grown children or other relatives.  We tried to do one big trip a year for 4 weeks, and maybe some short ones.  Roughly 50 - 50 between international travel and US travel. 

Photos:  With digital cameras, the good news is one can take as many photos as you want, no cost of film (just the cards) and no processing cost (just our time).  The bad news is the same.  We started taking a lot more photos.  Early on in our traveling we would keep a lot of photos, then managed for a while to keep only 20 or so photos a day.  We now try to keep only 12 or so photos a place (but sometimes more), even though generally there are several places a day. So averaging 30 - 45 photos a day.