Spring cleaning and live blogging

So somewhere around a year ago I moved my blog from its original home on Blogger to this lovely space on WordPress. After checking out some WordPress tutorials, I was able to set it up with the pretty design and various whizz-bangs that have made me very happy. And one thing I was supposed to do when that happened was revisit my old content to spruce up the photos, all of which needed to be put up on the new server manually. I’m sure you know where this is going…after a year of enthusiastic writing and posting it is only now that I am returning to those old posts (and not a minute too soon – apparently I didn’t know anything about how to write a post title or edit a photo then). Since moving my blog over, I’ve been thinking I should probably pay my social media accounts some attention too. A friend mentioned that they used a service like Growthoid and has had some good results on her Instagram account, so maybe I will get around to that eventually! Of course, she runs a statewide business and understands a lot more about technology than I! Apparently, she had an issue with the server security and was researching a better server option. She says some of the Best Seedbox servers (like the ones available from The Seedbox Company) can be trusted as they have designed the system with security & privacy as the main priorities.

I’m a little sorry it’s taken me so long, because I’m really enjoying looking at the old posts. Right now I’m deep in the middle of revising all the posts about our trip to Paris in July of 2008 – my first trip as a blogger in fact. I was so enthusiastic to be starting the site that I actually live blogged almost every day of our two-week vacation. From our disastrous lunch on our first full day in Paris to our amazing visit to Versailles, it’s all there as it happened. There’s something very fresh and immediate about looking at these posts, and it pulled me right back to our apartment in Paris and the lovely time we had there.

Since that time I’ve moved away from that live blogging to posts that are more planned. Lately I’ve been more likely to write about a trip after I come home, and while there’s nothing wrong with writing some more considered posts, I do feel that something gets lost with the passage of time. And so as I work on sprucing up my site, I’m also resolve to recapture some of that old excitement by making a renewed commitment to writing from the road.

And what better time to do so than at the beginning of another ten-day trip? Today I’m headed for Los Angeles with Tommy and Teddy and if the Gods of the Internet allow it, I will be trying to post from the road most days while we are gone.

If you’re curious about the origins of this site and would like to read about our trip to Paris, I recommend the post Paris in its proper order, which includes chronological links to all of the posts in that series. I haven’t finished updating all of the pictures yet – but then spring cleaning is always a process, isn’t it?

(The picture is Teddy at Versailles. He is decidedly not cleaning the windows).