Hi all,

Hope every­one is doing well, both back in Canada and wherever else you’re reading this from. According to our web stats, you are a very diverse bunch:

Some of you may have noticed some changes around here. This will be an ongoing project as we try to improve the blog and promote it more effect­ively. I am also working on some paying pro­jects for clients, so I have to balance these tweaks with that work. I’ll share some of that when the time is right. Anyway, here are some of the changes:

• I have finally done some of the basic things web­sites do through social media to promote them­selves. If you use Twitter, you can now follow us there. If you’re on Facebook, you can join our “fan” page. These are two easy ways to get noti­fied every time we put some­thing new up. Also, the RSS feed at the bottom of the pages is now active, if you’re into to that sort of thing. Actually, all of these links are now working at the bottom of the page.
• I’ve widened the overall page width in order to display larger photos, as this has become at least partly a photo-based site.
• The “Who” page(s) have been altered quite a bit to better organ­ize some info about us and to add space for guest con­trib­ut­ors. For now, our good friend Dale will just be sharing some posts from his upcom­ing trip to India, but in the future, we’d be more than happy to allow some guest con­tri­bu­tions from other people’s travels. If this sounds inter­est­ing to you, get in touch.
• The “When” page has been updated to Laura to add links to several of our past blog posts. This is an ongoing effort, and we hope to con­tinu­ously update this. It not only provides a day-by-day chro­no­logy of our trip (largely for us), it also allows new or old vis­it­ors to get more info about our actual route and to find old blog posts.
• The “Where” page is also under­go­ing some con­struc­tion. I will be updat­ing the Google maps and adding more for Italy, Morocco, Romania, Iran, India, etc., as we go.
• The other two static pages (What and Why) will also be tweaked in the next little bit. I’m also con­sid­er­ing adding a “How” page to outline some of our approach to travel and add links to the country-specific travel tips we intend to even­tu­ally post.

I also really want to say a great big THANK YOU, for every­one check­ing this site out. It’s been such a pos­it­ive exper­i­ence for us to be able to share our journey with you, and the com­ments lit­er­ally make our day every time we log in and see them. If you haven’t com­men­ted yet, please do. We’d love to know who else is check­ing this thing out. The comment form asks for your email, but only Laura and I can see it.

Thanks!

–Chris