Weekly Writing Challenge – Threes

Recently, Michelle wrote a great post on how to tell a story in three photographs. We loved the idea so much, we used it as the subject of the “threes” photo challenge. Today, we’re going to look at the idea of threes for a third time. (So cubist!) In this week’s writing challenge, you’ll write a post using three photographs for inspiration.

YOUR CHALLENGE, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT

You can choose to write a post inspired by a response to the “Threes” photo challenge, or you can write your post based on three photos you supply.

When the ship disgorges the thousands of folks the buses line up and whisk you toward the beach.

After 14 hours on a tour bus and another day aboard ship it was nice to stretch our legs walking toward the beach. There are some fairly long mid-day shadows.

The Caribbean water is just as clear blue as promised in the brochures and television commercials.

I obviously chose my own three photographs to tell my story. While I have written a few posts about our cruise adventure there are certainly many more stories to relate from our five day adventure. I found the process of disembarking the ship and securing transportation from the port over to the beach to be an interesting adventure.

Imagine at least two thousand people suddenly arriving and desiring transport from point A to point B. Now multiply this by three due to three cruise ships being in harbor at the same time. While this may seem an overwhelming ordeal, obviously the infrastructure has grown with time in anticipation of the need. I say this because the operation went off without a hitch.

As soon as our ship, the Carnival Celebration allowed people to leave the cadre of buses, vans and taxis were ready to ferry us over to the beach area. Our groups was only about thirty young people and chaperons, but We had to break up into three groups because most of the vans only held a dozen or so passengers. These vans were all makes and models, certainly not a uniform fleet. It was obviously a free enterprise deal where whatever would start and roll was good enough.

I can’t say what the experience of riding a chartered bus for fourteen hours was for the teenage members of our group, but for me it was one of the most uncomfortable experiences of my life. Perhaps my age is making me less accommodating, but I just could not find a comfortable way to endure this trip. We traveled the most of this time overnight, which should lend itself to passing the time counting sheep. Unfortunately I did not. So having a chance to actually get on the cruise ship to walk and walk from the drop off point near the beach over to the beach was a welcome bit of exercise.

Both beaches we visited on this Bahamas trip were gorgeous. The white sand and clear blue Caribbean waters were just as vibrant as I remember from two decades before. I would definitely recommend visiting if you get the chance.

The other Threes posts:

1. Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned, 03.03.14 | Markie’s Daily Blog
2. The More | field of thorns
3. Dreams Insult My Intelligence | Bumblepuppies
4. Pillow talk | Never Stationary
5. stone | FamousFeline
6. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes | A mom’s blog
7. Smile | The Seeker’s Dungeon
8. Threes: Haikus from Pictures! | Blue Loft
9. Winter Storm Titan Haikus | Fish Of Gold
10. A Tribute to my Mum – the Unbeatable Woman | Dreams Will Catch You
11. Confession About My Boy Band Obsession | Embracing the Journey
12. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes – Tori Sinks with the Sun | Just Be V
13. Gone with the Waves | Artfully Aspiring
14. It’s In The Lost & Found | Lead us from the Unreal to the Real
15. Spring’s here! | Scent of Rina
16. Haiku X 3 | Musings of a Soul Eclectic
17. Do You Have Silver Ties? | Home’s Cool!
18. Friends far away | Nagoonberry
19. House in three photos! | Scrapydodog
20. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes – Long walks and dark chocolate
21. The Road Maps of Life | Lifestyle | WANGSGARD
22. If anybody asks, you didn’t see me. | Trucker Turning Write
23. Coach Athlete | The Wind Beneath Their Arms
24. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes~~Sheila’s Poem |
25. Blue Boredom Tape Men: Battle of the Pepsi graveyard | The Bohemian Rock Star’s “Untitled Project”
26. Natasha’s Challenge | Mary J Melange
27. abandoned, broken, and dreaming | memoirs of an unremarkable man
28. The Simple Pleasures | Outmanned
29. Iditarod Trail Invitational | pencil me in
30. Innermission | The Shady Tree
31. A Tale of Two Worlds | Victoria.K.Gallagher
32. Seven Icicles, Part One | Stealing All the Sevens
33. Inspiration of a pocket watch | live simple
34. Lady By The Lake — 3 Images /1 Story | eyevpointofview
35. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes (Skulduggery) | Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist)
36. Writing Challenge | Tania Speaks
37. This is Why I Talk to Strangers | Your Goofy Girl
38. Threes: A letter to my baby – Weekly Writing Challenge | ALIEN AURA’S BlOG: IT’LL BLOW YOUR MIND!
39. Threes… Well that’s a triptych to me! « Alison Spedding Photography
40. Lebanon Trashed – by Loujain Rabbat | live simple
41. Give Peace a Chance.. | live simple
42. I don’t know which one is the real me. The person before alcohol or the one after! | live simple
43. Seeking Adventure? | live simple
44. A weekend on the Road | live simple
45. Have you ever written your own obituary? | live simple
46. Hello Mr. Breakfast! | live simple
47. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes | Thinking Languages!
48. My Religion is Dirt | the intrinsickness
49. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes | imagination
50. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes | Morrighan’s Muse
51. The Memory Eater | Really Short Stories
52. The Waiting Game – Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes. | Romance Writer
53. Three times Three: When pictures paint a Haiku!!! | D Lonely Stoner
54. Sand, Sea and … | Tattered Stamp
55. Weekly Writing Challenge: Haiku In Threes | Mirth and Motivation
56. He who loved the snow! | imwritinagain
57. The Blog Farm | Weekly Writing Challenge: Haiku In Threes
58. The Importance Of A Mother’s Instinct | So I want to be an author…
59. Silence | Alex Waldegrave
60. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes | The Willows Weeped
61. Silence – the ‘threes’ photo challenge | Alex Waldegrave
62. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes | MARGARET ROSE STRINGER
63. Variety | linkva
64. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes | Holoholo Girls
65. capturing sweet nothings
66. Hard Rain | Funk House Art Garden
67. Sekreku Rumahku | The Frozen Tears
68. When “Normal” was Normal | Love, Support, Educate, Advocate, Accept…
69. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes | Chiquitita
70. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes | life n me!
71. Thanks to Those Who Wrote | Cardinal Guzman
72. Adventures in Expat Living: Offering the Unexpected in everything from Creativity to Toilet Training | reinventing the event horizon
73. i am telling you i’m not going | Work in Progress…
74. Suicide no. 31: S.O.S. | derekalanwilkinson
75. The Lake at Cwm Symlog calls to me… | ALIEN AURA’S BlOG: IT’LL BLOW YOUR MIND!
76. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes | alienisme
77. The Road to Whitney Portal | the intrinsickness
78. Crazy Little Sister | Glorious Results Of A Misspent Youth
79. The 4th of March 2014 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, Washington, D.C. | Forgotten Correspondance
80. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes | In my world
81. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes | medicinalmeadows
82. A whole new world! Or should I say HTML code? | Happy Trails
83. The Talented Mr Potato | Emovere
84. One Lump Of Snow, Or Two – Weekly Writing Challenge – Threes | Simply Silent
85. DP Challenge (Threes): Birth of the Sun | one hundred thousand beats per day
86. Weekly writing challenge: Threes | Window on my world
87. Good Things Come in Threes | Life’s Unfiltered Ramblings
88. Touching the Mirage
89. Abandoned Buildings in Post-Conflict West Africa | The Human Rights Warrior
90. Three Homes, Three Years | the TEMENOS JOURNAL
91. WEEKLY WRITING CHALLENGE: THREES | Words We Women Write
92. Why I Don’t Toboggan ~ Weekly Writing Challenge | thisblogisepic
93. The Spark | This Is My Corn
94. Weekly Writing Challenge: Threes | captivated
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