For the last several years, I've wanted to join in with Julie Kirk and her month in numbers project. Earlier this year, she and I had a lovely email exchange about the project, but I never seem to be able to keep track of things. Since we were traveling a lot in March, I thought there'd be some interesting numbers, and started a list on my Notes app on the iPhone. Today I finally had time to count up some of the other numbers so here they are:
We drove 4,068 miles in March. That doesn't count the trip from Chicago back to Rochester since that happened in April. We drove through 12 states (PA, NY, MD, WV, Vir, SC, NC, GA, FL, Ohio, IN, AND IL).
We spent 14 days on the beach at Longboat Key, and I walked 92,450 steps over 12 of those days---averaging slightly less than my goal of 10,000 steps each day. We went on 3 excursions while we were in Florida, and 1 in Chicago (The Art Institute) which makes for 4 total. I collected 103 coquina shells which you'll hear more about later.
In Florida we went to the Arcadia Rodeo, Myakka River State Park and the Ringling Museum.
The beautiful courtyard at The Ringling Art Museum
I've linked to some previous posts about those trips, but Lady Ella said she'd be interested in some more alligator photos (as long as she was warned--hence the title of the post) Counting the earlier photo, that makes 4 alligators photographed. I think we saw quite a few more.
I thought you might also be interested in the air boat we were on for the tour around the lake.
We ate out 26 times in March. The top three meals were at The Waterfront on Anna Maria Island, Cotton & Rye in Savannah, GA, and The Gage in Chicago, but none were bad! We celebrated 1 birthday.
I took 589 photos but that doesn't include the many duplicates and out-of-focus photos I deleted as soon as I uploaded them. There are still too many to print or scrap, so there's much more sorting to do. I wrote 16 blog posts, which is way more than I usually manage while we're traveling.
My goal this year is to read 36 books, which averages out to 3/month. When we travel, I usually do better than that since I can read in the car. I read 5 books in March, all of which I enjoyed.
My favorite of the five was When Breath Becomes Air, a beautifully written, tragic memoir written by a neurosurgeon who was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer at the end of his residency, and died within two years of the diagnosis. Although tragic, it is ultimately an uplifting book with much in common, philosophically, with Being Mortal which I've recommended to almost everyone.
