Our daily diary is our most important file. A two week sample is shown below. Everyday we add one simple line with the Date, Mileage, Location, Hookups, Rating and Daily Fee for parking. We also add names of those we meet. Using this file and our photos we can reconstruct every event down to the hour and minute. If you have ever written a diary, you know that eventually you forget a day or lose interest. This one takes only a few seconds and we put the entry in right after we park. It helps that Ellen takes hundreds of photos each week. Each photo has a date and time stamp. We can look at photos and identify the area by accessing our diary. We can search the diary and find photos for a place or person.
We use the windows Notepad text editor. It loads faster than Word or Wordpad and we don't need any special text features.
Week 115 Arizona
10-26-08 46887 Cocopah Golf and RV, Yuma AZ 5WSC (3.5) $37
10-25-08 46702 Destiny RV, Goodyear AZ 5WS (3.5) $40
10-24-08 46702 Destiny RV, Goodyear AZ 5WS(3.5) $40, Bobby and Barbara dinner
10-23-08 46702 Destiny RV, Goodyear AZ 5WS (3.5) $40
10-22-08 46702 Destiny RV, Goodyear AZ 5WS (3.5) $40
10-21-08 46593 Distant Drums, Camp Verde AZ 5WSCI (4) $35
10-20-08 46593 Distant Drums, Camp Verde AZ 5WSCI (4) $35
Week 114 New Mexico, FMCA Rally Farmington
10-19-08 46593 Distant Drums, Camp Verde AZ 5WSCI (4) $35
10-18-08 46488 Winslow, AZ Walmart
10-17-08 46162 FMCA Rocky Mountain Rally, Farmington 3W(3)
10-16-08 46162 FMCA Rocky Mountain Rally, Farmington 3W(3), Larry & Phylis Alaska overview
10-15-08 46162 FMCA Rocky Mountain Rally, Farmington 3W(3)
10-14-08 46162 FMCA Rocky Mountain Rally, Farmington 3W(3), $140 for four nights
10-13-08 46162 FMCA Rocky Mountain Rally, Farmington 3W(3), $20 per night for early arrival