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March 24, 2007

Just Finished the "Best-of-RAMBLE" Photoset

In the last couple of weeks I've spent dozens of hours going through the photos from my trip, adding tags, titles and descriptions in the interest of finishing the "Best of" photoset. This is so that I can choose from that selection of 1,000 representative photos (that's one photo for every 10 miles) for various time-sensitive projects, not the least of which is a piece about my trip in the forthcoming Scooterworks catalog. The catalog is being designed now and should be out this spring. Hopefully there will be several pages of RAMBLE content and photos, with my own musings about traveling by scooter. I am not designing this catalog for those who are interested, though some of the framework from the former catalog (that I designed in 2004) will be retained.

With no further adieu, I offer the "Best of RAMBLE" photos on Flickr. If you don't want to "sneak ahead" past the point of the journal writing, that's cool, I will be going back to the writing soon now that the photos have all been gone-through. I apologize again for the lack of updates but I have been working hard on trip-related stuff, and now that the photos are ready the journaling will go faster because I won't have to do both simultaneously (a real drag!). It was a lot of fun going through these photos, seeing most of them for the first time in 4 or 5 months! Like living the road trip all over again...I had such a great time.

When you look at the photos on Flickr, I'd recommend using "Detail View", that way you're looking at decent-sized thumbnails and not those tiny little squares...plus the "Detail View" pages load faster than 1,000 thumbnails do! Also, if you see photos that you like don't hesitate to click on "browse" in the little "pjchmiel's photostream" box at the upper right, then you'll see the other 75% of the photos from the trip that aren't in this Best-of set. Click on tags too to see other similar photos.

Thanks for following along, look for more updates in the next couple of weeks (I'm really busy with work projects at the moment but hope to free up some time soon). Happy scootering, spring is almost upon us!

PJ

Posted by pj at March 24, 2007 02:27 AM

Comments

Hi PJ,
I'm still checking to see if you have updated your trip chronicles. Glad to see that you have. Yesterday (6/12) I saw a scooter in my rear view mirror colored just like yours. It even had luggage piled high like yours. The simularity was so close that I gotta ask were you east bound on Maple St in Lisle Il about 5:40pm on 6/12?
Jim Velguth
I sent this to your yahoo.com address. I don't know if that address is still alive so if your read it already ignore this.

Hi PJ,
I figured you would eventually get around to finishing you journal of your trip so I gave reading it a rest for awhile. I would have done it that way also just because its nice to be home and to relax. I also would have lost memories of the trip relaxing.

The only drawback to MovableType is that you don't put in the date of your journal. Personally I think that the date that you did whatever you did, is more important than the date your wrote it. That may be just me or maybe MovableType expects you to make your entry every day.

I see you have decided on Louisville. Scooterworks is going to have a "ride" on June 23, are you going to be in town? I am planning on ridding. If you are in town I would very much like to meet you. ( I was looking at your pictures. Why didn't you move to Boston those girls were pretty good looking?)

Posted by: Jim Velguth at June 13, 2007 11:05 PM