Well, the trip was mostly successful.  Washington State was beautiful.  We saw lots of new stuff and got lots of exercise.  In spite of that I gained a pound.  From eating more than usual, I’m sure. 

I took a lot of pictures with both my iPhone and my Nikon.  Now I’m struggling with getting them all copied to my computer.  Getting the ones from my Nikon was fairly simple. From the iPhone not so much.  I’ve tried 3 different methods and none of them have worked very well.  At the moment, I’m trying to copy from iCloud to the computer.  It didn’t put them where I said, so I’m trying to copy them from the iCloud folder it made on my computer to the folder I had prepared for it.  It says it will take hours.  The time varies widely from 3 days to 8 hours.  

In the meantime, I’m trying to upload the trip photos from the iPhone to my Google drive since the iCloud didn’t appear to have them.  It has said Preparing for about half an hour now.  It went fairly fast at first, then it bogged down with just a small sliver of the circle left to clear.  

This is why older people don’t like technology.  It just isn’t consistent or simple to do and errors are hard to define.  I will, however, continue the fight until it comes back and says it can’t do what I want.  Then I’ll try another method.  I am nothing if not stubborn.

The photos above are a random sampling without any edits.  Just a few from the Nikon.