Travel: When Writing Poetry is Interrupted

Writing poetry takes more time than a minute here and a minute there. It’s tough to accomplish while traveling.

Me in the Redwood Forests of Northern California. © Carol Labuzzetta, 2023.

The last few weeks have been extraordinarily busy. At the end of June, I went to California for a week with my oldest son. We spent three nights in San Francisco and then drove up the Pacific Coastal Highway to Redwood National Park. This park was on both of our bucket lists so it made sense to go together.

I’ve written several articles on my Medium.com page and will link those at the end of this piece. Needless to say, Redwood Trees are awe-inspiring not only with their height and mass but also with their age — One tree we saw was 1500 years old! Crazy!

A Very “BIG” tree. © Carol Labuzzetta, 2023.

I only brought my iPhone on our trip. This was a departure from taking my MacBook Air on trips — like I did when we went to St. Thomas last February or for our trek to the National Parks of the Southwest in 2021.

I managed to get several posts out on Medium over the week we were gone but it wasn’t without somewhat of a steep learning curve. It took me all week to figure out how to caption a…