I pushed a wrong button yesterday – some draft versions of this page got published – sorry if you read those drafts – Oh my – well, I think I got it as I wanted it this time.

Dave sent some wonderful photos for the TGO Photo Page & I posted some iPhone photos I took on my trip to Florida and New York. Click in the left column to view them – then return to Jimsdaily to read my thoughts below:

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“Hello Dolly”  – “I Love New York” – Sounds like a Broadway play – I love change too, I love an adrenaline rush, I love a change of diet – read on tell me what you think?

Change is a wonderful thing – But you need routine to have change – ‘cause if you do not have a routine to change from, it is impossible to have change – think about it.

As you have noticed,  I have not been writing here because I have been traveling.  Travel is a change of habit for me these days.  See image above – On 9/11 I saw this memorial display at a NYC airport.

The following is not my thoughts on stress or on a proper life style, – so do read into it any such thing – this is just a scattered story I want to tell of the New York City part of my travels  and some of my observations of traveling there at my old age.  Then I will post a few photos I took along the whole trip.

Naturally, the NYC part of  this two and half week trip was a change of diet for me and I loved it – Not just because it was a change but because it created a lot of stressful decisions, and having stress is a change from my routine – it is my adrenalin rush – see I can look at the positive side of any situation.

On the trip to New York City area, cars were everywhere (In my routine, I see maybe 10 cars going down the road and back again), unknown people rushing everywhere, (In my routine, everyone I see, I know), How do I get to the airport – do I take the taxi, ask my daughter drive me, or do I use Uber (In my routine, friends leave a car at the airport for me), constant loud mechanical sounds that even my deaf ears hear(In my routine, mostly I hear loons, geese, song birds and trees rustling), TV news constantly telling of shootings, sexually undesirable people, and bad government people – Yipes (In my routine, I have little TV and my radio only gets NPR orchestra music).

Travel requires lots of decisions too, (In my routine, my decisions are normally very small – decide if I will mow the lawn before I touch-up paint on a wall, or go see my friends with horses before I have lunch – or should I eat lunch at noon or wait until 1:00 – stuff like that)

When I traveled to the New York City area,  decisions about eating are  always complex.

So, you see, in the New York City area I  was given a real change of diet and I loved it – Loved it because it was a brief change from my routine. I noticed everyone who lives there on a regular basis is always trying to simplify their life –  So, what do they do?  They take a vacation to my peaceful Islands.  That is their change of routine – they go to those foreign places like Drummond or Florida to get away from it all.

Why do we humans like change – why do we fly fighter jets? –  why do we climb mountains?  –  for the change – the sudden rush of adrenalin – the change – that is why I loved the brief trip to New York City, away from my peaceful life on Drummond Island and the peaceful landlocked island “The Great Outdoors” Community in Florida.  New York City area is my seat in the cockpit of a fighter jet, my struggle to the top of mountain – my adrenalin rush.  and of course the joy of visiting my family there.

I will return to New York City area again and again – BUT FOR ONLY A WEEK AT A TIME!

Here are a few pleasant photos I took along the way of my whole trip:

A new painted stone someone placed on a bench on the bike trail I always take in Florida

A “save the broken earth rally” in New Jersey – near New York City

A beautiful short Florida storm from by back porch in Florida

Talk about routine – I knew where exactly to find this guy as I rode my bike in Florida

Heather getting into the cockpit of an experimental aircraft – sort of fixed wing helicopter – I got into it too – No we did not fly it!

My beautify family home – actually my daughters – but I got to live here as if it was mine for a few days – Wow!

Not a Drummond restaurant – Stock market info on TV, Folks wearing suits, oops – no one is seated – Oh my , the customers just got off the train from NYC, they have ordered dinner from the train using their cell phones and are now picking up the meal to take home to eat dinner while watching TV and Texting friends. Then their routine starts over tomorrow at 6:00 in the morning!

Oh my – Swing thru your routine, seek a change of diet – return refreshed and say thanks for your routine.

See more photos at Art &Photos