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…