Probably most of the folk who will drip by here know us — AC and Cuppa — from our blogs on Blogger. Raindrops is where I post my everyday, banal thoughts or photos while Cuppa posts on Brown Betty Brew. Since we embarking on a three week holiday to Vancouver and British Columbia, we thought that we should start a new blog, and then it also seemed like the perfect time to try a different method/blog host; we live to learn, I guess. Besides, if I ever decide to blog on my own website, I suppose I’ll use Word Press; in that event, this experience might help.
We probably won’t discontinue this blog after three weeks, however, but keep it to post other travel adventures after our BC vacation. I don’t suppose that we’ll travel very much in the next few years since we expect to be caring for our granddaughter when Mom goes back to work, but we could still post about day trips and even shorter local outings — a walk in the park or what have you.
Although we are only sixty, we are retired and have been for several years. I guess we’re not really rich enough to be retired but life is short, a fact which is coming more clearly into focus with every passing day.
Blogger friends might be interested to know that while you can’t customize templates in WordPress (not without paying a yearly fee anyway), they do permit you to upload your own headers. In fact, they make it very easy to do that. The one that we’ve posted as we write this is of Monument Valley as we saw it on our 2006 trip to Arizona.
That was a very ‘pretty please’ so here I am !
I haven’t had a chance to catch up here until now – it sounds like you’re having the time of your lives! I always enjoy my trips west, however few and far between. I made the mistake once of sitting in a canoe in the middle of an Ontario lake, remarking to my friend how much the surroundings reminded me of British Columbia: the water, the smell, the trees… He was most offended.
“Bite your tongue! You’re on the Canadian Shield, young man!”
That is when I learned to choose my words VERY carefully when sitting with a man in his canoe…
Carry on!