So today I've learned, perhaps, why I blog. It could be that this type of thing runs in my family. My mother, who passed away before I finished college, was apparently a scrapbooker. Do people still create baby books? I'd never really thought about the fact that making a scrapbook is a pre-tech way of doing exactly what I do at my eJournal and images. If anything this gives me a renewed enthusiasm for this blog.
My parents loaded a VW Camper Van in 1965 and headed to Alaska. They left Wendell, New Hampshire the summer before I started elementary school. I cannot say that I remember much of that first trip through many parts of Canada. But some of that trip can be relived through one of the things I just pulled out of a box. The red scrapbook boasts a little felt 'Thunderbird' totem my mom made. It looked like a four-foot wooden one we bought from Alaskan Indians. Unfortunately, upon our return, it was stolen from our lawn.
Unlike in the old receipt, I am sure that Jay and I paid much more than $0.50 a day to camp during our cross-Canada trip ten years ago. In fact, Manitoba's Parks and Natural Areas website shows that it now costs $9.45 to $16.80 for a basic services site. Oh my. For the lower number, that's what an annual 6.6% increase looks like over 46 years!