Sunday, February 13, 2011

T minus 112 days - Learning to Blog

I have had lots to do to prepare for the trip.  Buy a tent, sleeping bag, pad, coat, bike case, new GPS, net book (IPad won't support my GPS, you lose Apple).  Book travel, buy insurance, and on and on and on.

Today I am setting up a blog so I can chronicle my trip.  There appears to be a lot of complexity to setting up a blog and choosing options, however, I imagine that I will find that in the end setting it up was the easy part, continuously publishing something interesting to keep my friends interested will be the tough part.

So here is some practice text with pictures.

So Yesterday I decided that I would start preparing the walls in the mud room for painting.  First I washed the walls with TSP in an attempt to remove any remaining wall paper glue, then I rinsed.  Seemed to do a pretty good job.  Next would be sanding the walls to scuff the surface and give some tooth for the next layer.  On my many trips to the shop, I stopped to snap a picture of Rachel's old car, Hank, to post a picture on her facebook wall.  Here is the most excellent picture I took:


Hank is cold


That was exciting, wasn't it. 

I will post a few pictures in the blog and provide a link to my Picasa web album for each days pictures.  So here goes:

You can view more pictures from today's ride here:  Pictures from day "x"

OK, so now I have attached a picture, I also want to embed the Garmin track.  Here we go:



This was a recent MTB night ride on the trail. The GPS tracks up the highway will be similar to this.

So this is all I am going to do for now. I want to learn a little more about formating.

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