This may be harder than I expected…

Of course, the title of this post is refering to blogging and twittering and flickring this ride, not the ride itself. While the ride will be no walk-in-the-park, I wasn’t expecting it to be. :)

No… documenting this ride in words and pictures promises to be challenging for several reasons:

  • This silly little BlackBerry keyboard (not that I’d want anything else instead… if I can’t have a big full-qwerty keyboard, I want a small full-qwerty keyboard, thank you.)
  • The WordPress mobile admin interface (have to type in all the HTML by hand… Oh, the horror! ;) At least I can cut-and-paste… take that, iPhone!)
  • The wonky battery in my BlackBerry (seems the silly thing lies to me, dropping from 3 bars to zilch/blackout… I’ll be taking wall and auto chargers with me on the bike.) :)
  • Low/no signal strength (Can you hear me now? Huh? What? Is someone there? Hellooooo?)
  • Timing (Will I actually stop for 10 or 15 minutes to blog something cool I might come across? Not likely… Blog will in all likelihood be a once-an-evening thing; watch my Twitter feed for more timely updates
  • No spell-check (Please forgive any missspelligns, or blame it on the keyboard. I’ll clean it all up later.)

Anyway… Recapping and embelishing on Twitter: I was terrified by the “hill” I had to drive over to get here. Turns out tomorrow starts with us ascending to and crossing the Eastern Continental Divide at about 3 miles into the ride. :/ Also had a complete sandal failure and had to buy new ones in town (see the Twitter feed for the gory details.)

I have figured out getting photos to Flickr from this thing. You can see any photos I take and post here: http://flickr.com/photos/straffin/tags/cnc2008/. Currently featured: a picture of my new sandals! :) Look for more interesting pics tomorrow.

G’night…

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