Rolling rolling rolling

The chances of catching up on trip reports and actually becoming current by the end of this year seem minimal at this point. I am about to start a USA extravaganza but there are a couple of big ones after that that I don't see myself getting to - it's hard work. However I do seem to have emphatically answered the question [to myself] of whether I will manage to scrape together 100 posts this year. At the end of July, in the mid-thirties, it had seemed unlikely in the extreme. But just look at that autumn output! It's nearly a post every other day. Wine and pizza, cats and slugs, binoculars and cameras, Ohio, Scotland, Argentina, The Gambia and Bruce Springsteen. Just reading it I feel exhausted, but actually it wasn't so hard once I got the bit between my teeth, and with this the 88th post of the year I'm confident I can get over the line. Quantity over quality. The halcyon days of 2009 to 2013 are long gone of course, but right now there is still a bit left in the tank. But it begs the question, oft asked..... is there anybody alive out there?!?

"Is there anybody really alive out there?!?"