Digitizing project

What have I gotten myself into? But after it is finished, you all will be glad I did it. I have as one of my projects digitizing all of the photos I have ever taken over my lifetime. I have not taken "film" photos since switching to digital about 2005 or 2006. Everything after that is already digital. I bought a small photo scanner that copies photos to a memory card. I already have all of them organized by month and year and filed, which makes digitizing and renaming them much easier. However, after I got part way through (copied about 1250 photos), I realized that is only 10% of the photos I have filed since 1971 besides all the photos that I took prior to that and all my mission slides, and I have a long way to go. Part of this process is to color correct or brighten faded pictures with PhotoShop. I have done this to about 22 rolls so far and realize I have months of work ahead of me and I have learned that the photo scanner is a cheapo and does not copy photos very well (ie photos that appear to be okay are not okay after being scanned). That means that I have rescanned several of those on our big 3-in-1 office flatbed scanner - those turned out much better and I can correct them with better results. Using the flatbed scanner takes three to five times as long to copy. But I am determined to finish this project. You will all be glad I am doing this.
This is one example. Judy and I went camping in the Snow Range in Wyoming one day on Aug 1971. I had a bright orange pup tent (still have it) that I set up next to a mountain stream (very romantic, you know). I left my car ('68 Torino) in the small parking lot next to the highway, just hoping it would still be there in the morning (we couldn't see it from out camp site). Next morning I went up to the car to get breakfast and saw this sign. Camp take down and breakfast was very fast.