One Great Journey Subscribers

Dear Friends, We are currently on Dauphin Island – a Gulf island in the southern tip of Alabama, just south of Mobile. We’re off the road this week to re-group in preparation for the second half of our 11 month road trip around the US. We left Seattle on August 25, 2008 and still plan to be back by end of July 2009. Valentine’s Day marks the half way point of our journey! When we left Seattle we fully expected to update our website – www.onegreatjourney.com – much more frequently than we’ve been able to. Sorry about that. This has been tricky in part due to an absence of regular Internet connections and in part due the incredible amount of time it takes every day simply to get to a place, set up camp, prepare food, clean up, make beds and do home schooling. I’d be lying if I didn’t also mention that we sometimes are just having too much fun to pull back from the experience to write about it! Communications Lane Change What we have discovered is that “Mr. Google” has made it super easy for us to update our free blog site. From our main site, the link is, “Where Are They Now?” on the left side navigation. (It goes to http://onegreatjourney.blogspot.com). We’ve started to lean more heavily on ensuring our blog is updated when our main website isn’t. We’re able to send a short message from our cell phone to automatically update the site, including any photos taken from Doug’s phone. Originally we’d hoped to use a third-party email management system, Constant Contact, to let people subscribe (and unsubscribe) to regular travel updates we’d be providing. This didn’t happen. And it doesn’t look like happening, so we’re closing down our Constant Contact account. From now on, everyone who subscribed will receive a regular email from us when the blog is updated (2-3 times per week, most weeks). You can simply reply to a mailing and let us know if you’d prefer we remove you from future mailings. And you can always just hit REPLY if you’d like to send a message back to us. Happy Valentine’s Day to all! Doug, Denise, Rose and Ruth